Perkins five assumptions

Stereotypes are not always negative e.g. the French are good cooks. stereotypes are used to attach a certain image to a group of people, which is usually bad, for example, youths are stereotyped as violent and bad people who brake the law. However, Perkins described stereotypes of youths aren't always negative, such as: when riots happen the majority of the blame falls on the youths shoulders, due to only certain groups being violent. 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 minority groups or less the powerful e.g. ‘upper class twits’

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. Within hotel Babylon we can see that there are stereotypes that are focused on other groups, not just the migrant workers. An example of this is the officers that storm the building who are represented as careless and horrible by the way they show no emotion and take one of the workers away from his loved ones.

 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. We can see in hotel Babylon that groups of people aren't always held to their own stereotype, this is shown by the way that the migrants are represented as more of an intelligent, useful workforce and therefore break their stereotype and gain respect from the audience.

They are not rigid or unchanging 

In Hotel Babylon that stereotypes change within different characters, as the people who work in the hotel treat the immigrants with respect, whereas the officers don’t care how they treat the migrants and just throw them about.

They are not always false 

From the scene where the migrant officers catch an immigrant, we can see that the stereotype of them being mean is true, as is it their job to catch them, and if they weren't being thoughtless in this clip then their role would be pointless.