...Cultural Competence Tara Culberson Texas Tech University Healthcare is universal but there are many different views of how healthcare should be administered and given. Different cultures vary in the beliefs surrounding healthcare and the people of those cultures have norms that they believe should be followed when receiving healthcare. Cultural competence can only be administered when the healthcare professionals are educated and value the beliefs of their patients. Joey Guzman is a 19-year-old college student at Tarrant County College who is Hispanic. Both of his parents were born in Mexico and moved to the United States at different periods in their life. Joey’s mom, Sole, has her own views of healthcare and how it should be administered to her and her family. Cultural competence can only occur once healthcare professionals respect and accept cultural differences, and posses different cultural information. Cultural competence is an on-going process and is a learning experience. There should be some things that nurses should be aware of, but cultural competence will gradually be learned as nurses come in contact with different cultures. For example, people of Asian descent belief in acupuncture for healing along with herbal remedies while African Americans also believe in herbal remedies but do not think that acupuncture is a useful measure for healing. The beliefs that Hispanics have surrounding healthcare are very particular and specific and do not really overlap...
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...American Intercontinental University Unit 3 - Cultural Syncretism Alisha Kinchen February 26th, 2012 Abstract This paper contains information regarding Cultural Syncretism. It is my contribution to the Unit Three Group Project. The information is provided for the group in order to explain the impact Syncretism has on individuals along with its aftermath. Cultural Syncretism When asked the question of what cultural factors caused the differences in outcomes regarding the legacies of cultural syncretism in Africa and the Americas with the resistance to cultural change Westerners encountered in China and India there had to be research conducted explaining what the factors were with definitions suffice to examining each component along with correlating with the countries of topic found throughout the paper, so without further delay the source of this information is from the following: The University of Calgary (2000)Old World Contacts. Cultural Conversion Theory Page. Cultural Factors are listed as follows: * Conversion by Voluntary Association - Co-operation & Co-existence * Conversion by Pressure - Conflict, Conquest & Coercion * Conversion by Pressure - Migratory Pressures * Conversion by Assimilation - Adoption & Adaptation * Combinations of Modes of Conversion * Syncretism & * Cultural Resistance Having reviewed the list above let us look further into how each component caused differences in out comes to occur. According...
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...Cultural Relativism Cultural relativism, or CR, is the view that good and bad are determined by the beliefs of a society, or in other words, moral principles are based upon the culture’s collective norms of what is good and bad. Normality is culturally defined. This implies that morality is a social construct and therefore the moral codes you hold, are a direct reflection of the societies codes in which you live. Further, the morals held by your society are not objective facts, but rather, varied from culture to culture. Neither side is wrong in their belief, despite the fact they are different beliefs. Relativism argues that not passing judgments against cultures allows for a greater sense of cultural appreciation. We don't lock other cultures in judgments, but rather are tolerant and accepting of them. Cultural relativism teaches us to view other cultures with a nuanced outlook, and to not immediately assume (as many people do) that our own preferences are the absolute best ones. Many (though not all) practices, customs, and beliefs may seem odd or even repulsive, but they’re generally harmless as far as their ethical consequences. From the tolerance and open-mindedness offered by cultural relativism is a chance to learn about other cultures and ways of doing things. Opponents of cultural relativism offer some strong arguments against this theory. First, it doesn’t allow you to question society’s norms. In asking whether slavery was right or wrong, you would merely be asking...
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...The Challenge of Cultural Relativism Cultural Relativism is what seems right and wrong from culture to culture. Every society has their own set of values and moral codes. It breaks down to a matter of opinion. When you grow up in a certain society you learn what is accepted as right and wrong. Not every culture is going to agree on what’s morally right because there is no set standard. Every culture could be objectionable to another’s set of moral codes. In some cultures its common practice to kill newborns if they are females as other cultures find this to be terrible. In other cultures some eat the flesh of the dead while other cultures would see this as a sickening act. In areas around Arabia women are looked down upon and viewed as property. Even here in America other countries disagree with how our society runs. Even a lot of the people here in the same country disagree too. Some values that are shared through all cultures would be like protecting one’s family, being honest, and murder is bad. Cultural Relativism may seem appealing when first introduced especially as children because it’s how we first learn to behave in society. We’re not open minded to seeing other view points and get to get a glimpse inside other culture’s. It’s what we learn as what’s right and what’s wrong with not much middle ground. Cultural Relativism can’t be true because in different cultures there are different sets of moral codes, so there is no truth in morality, it’s all different opinions...
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...Community and Cultural Competence The definition of the geopolitical community is a community that have specific boundary such as rivers, mountain as well as highways or jurisdictional boundaries which can be politically or geographically influenced Statistical and epidemiological studies are frequently based on date from specific geopolitical areas (Maurer & Smith, 2013). This is my geopolitical community because it is a geographical location. I may or may not have anything in common with my geopolitical community beside the location of home. My children do not go to the same school as the kids in the neighborhood, but they are still friends and play together at the park. My husband and I work in another area from our neighborhoods. Our recreational activities usually takes place in other communities, but our community is trying to use the education resources that is provided by our community members in order to understand and know how to access the resources our community needs. Per Maurer & Smith (2013), the community ones belongs to, does not necessarily have to be the geographical location, but a community in terms of the members' feeling and emotions of belonging or sense of membership it belongs to. This is a referred to as a phenomenological community. The phenomenological community does not automatically share a geographical location as does the geopolitical community, but may share the same interests and goals. This type of community is a group...
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...| Paper 1 | | | | Paper 1 | | | Phil 140 April 6, 2012 Authored by: Willie Moore Phil 140 April 6, 2012 Authored by: Willie Moore Cultural Relativism challenges our belief in the objectivity and universality of moral truth. Cultural Relativism also holds that that the norms of a culture reign supreme within the bounds of the culture itself. Cultural Relativists believe that there is no such thing as universal truth in ethics; there are only the various cultural codes, and nothing more. There are five claims that are made by cultural relativists: 1. Different societies have different moral codes. 2. The moral code of a society determines what is right within that society; that is, if the moral code of a society says that a certain action is right, then that action is right, at least within that society. 3. There is no objective standard that can be used to judge no moral truths that hold for all people at all times. 4. The moral code of our own society has no special status; it is but one among many. 5. It is arrogant for us to judge other cultures. We should always be tolerant of them. There are three problems Rachel has with Cultural Relativism: 1. We could no longer say that the customs of other societies are morally inferior to our own. 2. We could no longer criticize the code of our own society. 3. The idea of moral progress is called into doubt. Ethical Subjectivism is the idea that our moral opinions are based on our feelings and nothing...
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...It is important to consider all objective facts when debating moral topics. Cultural Relativism and Subjectivism make it seem like people have different ideas of what is morally right and wrong. The idea that morals vary throughout the world stems from the observations of different cultural practices and personal circumstance. All these differences that have been observed has created a theory that seems to miss some of the larger picture facts of cultures and personal circumstance. Missing these facts makes it difficult to imagine a universal set of standards, but when all the objective points in a situation are taken into account, it is easier to envision an underlying theme of moral standards. Though the perceptions of the world differ, I will show how there seem to be a consistent root of moral truths underlying the individual cultures and circumstances. Cultural Relativism views morality in an interesting manner. Cultural Relativists have observed that different cultures view many topics differently (Rachels, p17). The Cultural Differences Argument has taken this observation and used it to argue that there are no moral truths (Rachels, p19). Cultural Relativism allows for each culture around the world to practice a multitude of traditions without judgement. Good to recognize, right? In most cases, yes. What about when cultural belief, worried about a girl losing her virginity sinfully, urges parents to marry off their daughter? How about when the only solution to poverty...
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...Cultural Relativism Response Essay James Rachel overall definition of Cultural Relativism to me is someone’s belief that challenges our everyday belief in morality. Rachel gives us examples of what’s right and one cultural can be wrong or immoral in another. In the example of the cremation of the dead of the Greeks and the eating of the dead fathers of the Callatians. Rachel then present the idea of the different cultures views to one another and the two cultures both felt like it was immoral. Now me personally I think bout the ideas of cannibalism and cremation are immoral but Rachel explains how can one say wrong base on their moral codes and teaching is. This helps me realize in Cultural Relativism that in this world not every society believes in the same morals and ethics so there’s no truth in morality. Rachel gives his arguments towards Cultural Relativism that it shouldn’t be accepted completely. The changes or advances society makes can be improvements. That some cultures old beliefs were wrong for example slavery and the killing of the Jewish. So I get the impression that nothing’s wrong with the society if it’s accepted within. The cultural(s) who still believe the world is flat I believe that this shows Cultural Relativism because many other society know its round but the acceptance of the “flat” thinking is accepted which may lead to moral improvement. The reading also proves to me that we cannot judge societies base on the beliefs of others. Rachel talks...
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...Cultural Sensitivity Company A is headquartered in a regional manufacturing area in the United States. Company A produces engine components that undergo an extra heat-hardening process that provides extended life for engines of heavy-duty trucks, and it provides specialized machined engine components to all major U.S. truck and automobile manufacturers. Company A currently has 5,000 employees in the United States and wants to double its size within the next four years. After establishing through market research that a huge growth potential exists for new entrants of heavy-duty trucks in several target countries, Company A expanded successfully into one European country this past year. The company is now considering expansion into an Eastern Asian market. Senior management believes Company A will more than double company profits with its expansion in the international market. As a member of the expansion team, you will be a key player in ensuring the success of this new venture. You will be responsible for providing assessments, analysis, and written plans for successful furtherance of Company A’s global marketing plan. Your manager at Company A has asked you to submit a detailed marketing approach that the manager will present to the operating committee. Your approach should address any major cross-cultural challenges that may likely surface as Company A expands into an Eastern Asian market. A. Identify one country in Eastern Asia a. After researching a number...
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...Cultural Sensitivity Cynthia Phillips Rasmussen College This paper is being, submitted by Cynthia Phillips for class, G141/ COM1002 Section 09 Introductions to Communication Cultural Sensitivity During the year when we had all the hurricanes and when Katrina hit the coast off Florida. During that time, I had become a Disaster hurricane worker and helper. It was a very changing job; it changed me as a person it taught me a lot about people and their cultural. In New Orleans, they are very different; they are a mix of people that come from old bloodlines, most are very proud of where they live. Some not so they just did not care ready to live off the Government. Our company had to hire local people to work, they did not want to brother with any work to build up the area that was destroyed from the storm. New Orleans is a place where Africans and American Indians shared their culture. In addition, they intermingled with other European settlers. Encouraged by the French government the strategy produced a durable culture; they are different today as in the past from other cities. New Orleans served as a cultural gateway to North America. I stood looking out over the bridge that was destroyed, and saw the gateway of many people being together. It gave me new insight just how devise the culture was. With the French and Creole language being prominent, most of the Creole people and the new Americans live in different areas of the city. I could see many...
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...Cultural studies in the academies of the advanced capitalist countries has transformed the object of studies in the humanities. In particular, in English departments, cultural studies has challenged the predominance of the governing categories of literary studies (the "canon," the homogeneous "period," the formal properties of genre, the literary object as autonomous and self-contained) in the interest of producing "readings" of all texts of culture and inquiring into the reproduction of subjectivities. To this end, pressure has been placed on disciplinary boundaries, the methods which police these boundaries, and modes of interpretation and critique have been developed which bring, for example, "economics" and "politics" to bear on the formal properties of texts. In addition, the lines between "high culture" and "mass culture" have been relativized, making it possible to address texts in terms of their social effectivity rather than their "inherent" literary, philosophical or other values. 2. The two most significant categories which have supported these institutional changes have been "ideology" and "theory." Althusserian and post-althusserian understandings of ideology, which defined ideology not in terms of a system of ideas or "world view" but in terms of the production of subjects who recognize the existing social world as the only possible and "reasonable" one, made possible the reading of texts in terms of the ways in which the workings of ideology determined their...
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...Noticia CIUDAD DE MÉXICO | Sábado 26 de enero de 2013Redacción | El Universal Pide IFAI a INAH registro de arte sacro en Puebla El INAH arguyó, ante la solicitud de un particular, que sólo es competente en materia de monumentos y zonas de monumentos arqueológicos e histórico El Instituto Federal de Acceso a la Información y Protección de Datos (IFAI) ordenó al Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH) buscar y entregar los registros, inventarios o catálogos de arte sacro en Pueblaque estén en sus archivos. TRANSPARENCIA EN EL ARTE El INAH también deberá indicar cuáles obras han sido restauradas. (Foto: Archivo ELUNIVERSAL TRANSPARENCIA EN EL ARTE El INAH también deberá indicar cuáles obras han sido restauradas. (Foto: Archivo ELUNIVERSAL En respuesta a una solicitud de acceso donde se pedía dicha información, el INAH señaló que no existe un inventario de arte sacro en Puebla. Pero, inconforme con la respuesta, el particular interpuso recurso de revisión ante el IFAI, mismo que se turnó al comisionado Gerardo Laveaga y que se resolvió con el número RDA 3510/12, detalló el INAH a través de un boletín. Niegan existencia de información En sus alegatos, el INAH reiteró la inexistencia de la información solicitada. Señaló que el "arte sacro" es una denominación utilizada para todas aquellas producciones artísticas que tienen como fin el culto a lo sagrado o divino. Y agregó que el Registro Público de Monumentos y Zonas Arqueológicos e Históricos realiza...
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...WORLD VIEWS AND CULTURAL LANDSCAPE Humanities Presented to Mehdi Ghafouri By Emi Rizvanolli Vanier College November 17th, 2013 Intro: Many people talk about culture as a reason of their authenticity. We often ask ourselves why we are who we are, what makes us what we are today, why we act like we act and so on. But have we ever considered that our surrounding, the places where we live, the people we are surrounded with makes us the person that we are today? We often say ‘’everyone is different and has its own personality’’, which is true, but what made us who we are is what we were surrounded with our whole life. The same concept goes to a population; they are who they are because of their history, their way of thinking and their surroundings. That is what we have learned in this class. The landscapes have their own meaning and their history makes them culturally important to us because a land is mean less if nothing important happen in it. Development First of all, before understanding the role of cultural landscapes, we need to understand some concept related to it and how they are linked one another. What is culture? Culture is the characteristics of a group of people that are defined by their language, religion, cuisine, social habits, etc… What is space? In a material point of view, space is defined as a physical reality, reinforcing relations of products. When we see space with the economic view, we see its functional unit which is determined...
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...transportation and technology, cultural exchange has become a daily event that spans across continents in less than a second. A product of this exchange, however, has been increasingly on the receiving end of criticism during recent years. A specific term has been commonly adopted and used to summarize this wave of disapproval: Cultural appropriation. Seen by some as a sort of cultural, exploitive crime, I believe cultural appropriation to be just another part of the process of interaction in our modernized world. Since the early development of civilizations, cultures have borrowed and adopted ideas from each other. As an example, it is well known that Egyptian culture influenced the Greeks, which in turn influenced the Romans who spread their empire towards Europe, Asia and Africa influencing countless others who in turn influenced them. Since its beginning, this form of culture exchange has been a driving force of humanity’s development. All cultures have appropriate from other cultures; it is a necessary action for the survival of a society. Recently a wave of backlash has given this exchange a negative connotation by criticizing it as being a form of disrespect; where a culture will “steal” another culture’s intellectual property or tradition for their own personal gain. Should we rush to discredit a culture’s actions or accomplishments if they’re based on something outside of their own experience? It would have been impossible for many countries to make the cultural improvements to reach...
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