In this essay I am going to compare the ways in which race has been represented in the two sitcoms “Desmond’s” and “Mind your language.” Desmond’s is a sitcom set in a barber shop in the 1989 and Mind your language which is set in a school in 1970’s.
Mind your language reinforces stereotypes by the people’s accents for example Ali said that he goes around and “nicking” on peoples doors when he’s meant to say “knocking” on peoples door that’s why you cant trust him and this also makes him sound dishonest. Ali and Ranjeet are in a conflict with each other because of the war against India and Pakistan. Jamila the Pakistani woman is represented as domestic because she is always knitting in class also there is conflict going on with Ingrid the Swedish woman and Anna the German woman who are trying to attract most of the men in the class because mostly the class is full of men. Ranjeet is shown as a typical Indian because he is always shaking his head and moving his hands and also him going to be arranged married to a another person that he doesn’t even know and doesn’t like. Taro the Japanese man has a camera on him because it shows that all Japanese people carry cameras and makes them look like tourists. All the students in Mind your language don’t take learning English seriously by not doing their homework instead they buy it of Giovanni the Italian and coming late to their classes.
