Evaluate Perkins five assumptions regarding stereotypes in relation to the Hotel Babylon sequence we have studied.

• Stereotypes are not always negative: Most stereotypes that are used attached and labels a group of people are usually bad or gives the particular group a image that isn't desired, for example, youths are widely regarded as violent, "hoodie culture" law breaking citizens. However Perkins described how stereotypes of youths aren't always a negative thing, when riots occur the majority of the blame goes to the "violent" youths being violent just to be violent, these riots could result in property damage, arson, looting and even murders. On the other hand, using the 2011 London riots, they started by the death of 29 year old Mark Duggan, who was shot by police and the riots began as retaliation of the polices action. In the eyes on Perkins and few others, the youths acts of violence was justified as it was to get justice for the death of Duggan that the courts wouldn't have done efficiently, Parsons says this these acts are justifiable and is the example that not all stereotypes is bad. This has a relation with the Hotel Babylon scene as a stereotype holds the upper class, wealthy and powerful in this class that doesn't help or protect others, which the owners of the hotel rejects.

• They are not always about the minority groups or the less powerful: Perkins saw that most stereotypes were aimed at the lower/ working classes therefore she argued that the upper classes could always be treated in the same way and making assumptions isn't always the safest option. This could hold a parallel link to the Hotel Babylon because although the minority's are the helpless workers in the scene, they are however acting on this stereotype which the rich aren't, the rich and powerful upper class are more likely to be fighting against the working class and helpless, the people in the scene however are caring and look after the people who need it most by providing them with jobs and protection. 

• They can be held about ones own group: Perkins saw that even in larger groups of people stereotypes can still be made about each other by the people in said group, even though they hold the same believes and ideologies just on assumption. The group involved in the Hotel Babylon clip is portrayed in this way though a few forms, first being how the police should be seen as the ones to protect and serve the less fortunate in society yet they are the ones hunting down the despite and powerless in the scene.

• They are not rigid or unchanging: Perkins stated that even if a stereotype has been pinned on a group of people or class, even though it may be difficult, it still is able to change over time. For example, women used to be seen as only housewife's but now they're recognised as being more career driven. This could also link to the shift in behaviour of the police in the Hotel Babylon clip, usually seen as the protectors they are here being seen hunting down the helpless that shifts the point of views of the audience on the police force.

• They're not always false:  Simple enough, some stereotypes are truthful to a group of people. Stereotypes probably surfaced though first or second hand experience to create the stereotype in the first place. In the Hotel Babylon clip this can be seen though the migrant civilians that are hiding from the authority in the hotel, they are stereotyped as helpless, powerless and hard working, in the show they are portrayed in all three of these examples.  

Alvarado's racial stereotypes theory (1987)

Alvarado studied multiple areas of society and how the media, documentaries and we as people view different groups of people.

• Mainly seen in areas such as Africa and the children living there, documentaries display these children in a way to portray poverty and death so the audience will feel a sense of pity for these groups of people whereas we do not feel the same pity when examining the less fortunate groups of people in our own country.
• Some ethnic groups are in many forms displayed as dangerous and violent in their behaviour, there are TV soap characters such as EastEnders character Yusef Khan who acts in a villainous and violent way so the audience can recognise and relate his particular behaviour to his ethnic group.
• Being exotic has become a label mainly for Latino Americans who are now seen as sex symbols because of characters such as Shakira's controversial behaviour.