Chapter 1 Flashcards
understanding resistance to multicultural training
microagressions
everyday slights, put downs, invalidations, and insults directed to socially devalued group members by well-intentioned people who are often unaware
cultural competence
become aware of worldviews, their assumptions of human behavior, their misinformation and lack of knowledge, and their biases/prejudices
3 forms of resistance to diversity training
cognitive, emotional, behavioral
cognitive resistance
denial
emotional resistant
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
primary subjective emotion encountered by white ppl
anxiety
defensiveness and anger stems from 3 sources
feeling unfairly accused
being told the substance or stance they take is wrong
confronting information suggesting that have benefitted from racial privilege
white guilt
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
behavioral resistance
helplessness on how to fix issue
hopelessness
a feeling of despair and of giving up, a self-belief that no action will matter and no solution will work