Chapter 1 Flashcards

understanding resistance to multicultural training

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microagressions

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everyday slights, put downs, invalidations, and insults directed to socially devalued group members by well-intentioned people who are often unaware

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cultural competence

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become aware of worldviews, their assumptions of human behavior, their misinformation and lack of knowledge, and their biases/prejudices

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3 forms of resistance to diversity training

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cognitive, emotional, behavioral

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cognitive resistance

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denial

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emotional resistant

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the major obstacle to multicultural understanding
blocks a persons ability to acknowledge, understand, and make meaning out of strong and powerful feelings associated with multicultural topics
guilty, angry, defensive, turned off, helpless

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primary subjective emotion encountered by white ppl

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anxiety

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defensiveness and anger stems from 3 sources

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feeling unfairly accused
being told the substance or stance they take is wrong
confronting information suggesting that have benefitted from racial privilege

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white guilt

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refer to the individual and collective feelings of culpability experienced by some white Americans for the racist treatment of people of color, both historically and currently

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behavioral resistance

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helplessness on how to fix issue

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hopelessness

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a feeling of despair and of giving up, a self-belief that no action will matter and no solution will work

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