COMM WEEK

For my department function post, I went and looked at the events calendar to see what I could go to with my school and my work schedule. The event that I picked to go to was difficult dialogues panel presentation. This event had COMM 141P students share what they learned from dialogues on immigration, ethnic identity, sexism, and sizsim. The group that I observed was presenting their project about Asian stereotypes in our country, from the media and society. I thought this was a very interesting presentation because they provided numerous examples to prove their point of how media gives the Asian community. They used sources from television shows, commercials, and movies. After this presentation I realized that media has a large influence on how we view people from other ethnicities are portrayed. Usually they are viewed in a negative way and I personally think that not fair. This event-helped people realize that we should not let the media influence us on how we see people. This presentation also related to the calss discussion we had about how medias influence on our society. We usually tend to believe what the media presents to us. With that when ever I tend to see something about a certain race or community I usually try to not believe what I am seeing until it is legitimately proven by credible sources. I do this because lately I feel that the media has been present a lot of false information to the people and many shows just usually tend to show the negative sides of the each ethnic community which I think is horrible.