Love Thy Neighbour: Race Representations

In Love thy neighbour blacks are represented as the inferior race to whites and whites such as Eric see blacks as lower than him. This is shown through the dialogue when Eric quotes "bloody big-nogs, everywhere I turn theres a big-nog." This represents Eric as very racist and intimidating towards the black character as she (the black character) is behind him at the door as he turns. The programme represents interracial neighbourhoods as very strange and abnormal as it is meant to portray that it is abnormal for a black family to be living next to a white family. The show represents white people as middle classed and very sophisticated and represents black people as quite violent people. This is because in one episode the white woman is supposed to be fixing the TV and the black woman smacks the TV to try to help which could imply that blacks are more violent than whites.

Race and representation