“Asian Pacific American Heritage Month,” I received a flyer while walking through the hallway. Coming from a country in Asia, this phrase grabbed my attention. When I looked through it, I found out that Center for Student Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, an organization at the University of Houston-Downtown (UHD), was celebrating April as a month dedicated for Asian Pacific Americans. The flyer had a list of film screening and discussion events.This was a perfect chance for me as I was looking for a discussion event for my Comm 1304 assignment. I could kill two birds with one stone— learn more about my heritage and finish my assignment. I read the list and found “The Asian Indians in America” event, most closely related to myself. Though I am not from India, it is a neighbouring country of Nepal, my birth place. Our cultures and languages are quite similar. Hence, I decided to attend this event and saved the date for it. In this paper, I am going to explain my experience at the event and the three concepts from class that I decided to use to check if the communicator used them well.
The screening was conducted at the Welcome Center of UHD by Dr. John Hudson, the director of the Center for Student Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. The audiences for the event were the student, teachers and faculty members of UHD, …show more content…
Along with getting a chance to know about my heritage, other culture and religion, it also taught me about the impact Asian Indians have in America. Nevertheless, the event could not be rated as a good communication event because it did not have any actual discussion. The communicators used some of the concepts properly, but a lot of the qualities of a good communication event were untouched. It could be because of the less number of audience or the long length of the video, we were not actually able to talk about the documentary. Watching the film was helpful, but it was not
The screening was conducted at the Welcome Center of UHD by Dr. John Hudson, the director of the Center for Student Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. The audiences for the event were the student, teachers and faculty members of UHD, …show more content…
Along with getting a chance to know about my heritage, other culture and religion, it also taught me about the impact Asian Indians have in America. Nevertheless, the event could not be rated as a good communication event because it did not have any actual discussion. The communicators used some of the concepts properly, but a lot of the qualities of a good communication event were untouched. It could be because of the less number of audience or the long length of the video, we were not actually able to talk about the documentary. Watching the film was helpful, but it was not