with a nursing workforce that, in itself, is impacted by generational, ethnic and gender differences. The purpose of this paper is to present the importance of diversity in the workplace and delivering culturally competent nursing care, the impact of gender diversity, and the misrepresentation of minorities in the nursing profession. Importance of diversity in the workplace America is a kaleidoscope of cultures, religions, races, and nationalities. The USA Quick Facts from the US Census Bureau
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task I will describe religious communities and local communities. The ways in which community groups can be different involve a few different factors: • Culture can be different e.g types of food/art/music * Being part of different virtual communities • Different people have different lifestyles by ways of living •Different ethnic backgrounds | Religious | Local | Cultural Differences | Some religious communities have a dress code like the Jewish, Muslims (the ladies wear veils)
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Practice of human service across different cultures Sarahi Alvarenga 05 July 2013 Walden University Cultural diversity refers to the process through which different cultures respect other people’s differences and the variety of human cultures or societies. In general, cultural diversity therefore refers to the existence of different value systems and multiplicity of subcultures in a multicultural or plural society or any other setting. Cultural diversity therefore calls for people to appreciate
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COM 301 Reflective Writing # 2 (Verbal and non-verbal) Reflective Writing Two A. Verbal 1. What labels, that you dislike, have been applied to you or to groups (for example: ethnic, social, cultural, professional, etc.) to which you belong? Explain how the labels have or have not affected you. One ethnic label that I dislike is the term “Chino” or “Chinks.” I do not like to be referred to as Chinese as Hmong people are not Chinese (people like to use it even though they know that Hmong people
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fictional book by John Boyne. Introduction Ethnocentrism is the tendency to believe that one's ethnic or cultural group is centrally important, and that all other groups are measured in relation to one's own. The ethnocentric individual will judge other groups relative to his or her own particular ethnic group or culture, especially with concern to language, behavior, customs, and religion. These ethnic distinctions and sub-divisions serve to define each ethnicity's unique cultural identity (Pinstonedu
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Asian Pacific Americans, they are often misperceived as a monolithic group. Thus, even though an act of anti-Asian sentiment might be perpetrated with a particular ethnic group in mind (e.g., Indian, Filipino or Korean), a failure to make distinctions between Asian Pacific American ethnic groups causes members of all groups to become potential victims of hate crimes. Hate incidents are expressions of hostility based on race, religion, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or disability. Hate incidents
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South-east Asian countries in the inter-war period and manifested inside in many forms, namely between and within parties (ideological divides), between elites and masses, moderates and radicals, majority and minority groups (ethnicity, religion) and even between individual nationalist leaders. Internal weaknesses posed a great obstacle to the development of nationalism as it prevented the different nationalist groups from coordinating their efforts and generating mass support for initiated movements, all
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Outline and Assess functionalist explanations for ethnic inequality Functionalists hold the view that ethnic inequality is a dysfunctional for society, and that ethnic minorities need to become more similar to the white majority. This is known as Assimilation theory, which is staunchly criticised by the Marxists who believe racism exists to justify the inequalities that are so wide spread by the Bourgeoisie via Capitalism. Weberianism concurs with Marxists (so they diverge from the Functionalists)
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experience, Ghosts, American embassy- all deal directly with individuals who lose children (and a sister) because of violence… Adiche uses this to hit readers hard with the message of the disastrous effects of this violence.A private experience- ethnic tensions between Hausa Muslims and Igbo Christians in the 1990s during general Abachas presidency.The American embassy- the violence here is more personal. The corrupt government send soldiers to take the radical journalist and instead they kill his young
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unreliable, over generalizations about all members of a certain group that do not | | |take people’s individual differences into account. In other words, people judge a whole group of | | |people based upon a few bad people that are part of that group. | |Prejudice |Prejudice is a negative attitude towards a whole group of people. In other words, If someone does | |
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