Chapter 5: Cultural Diversity Flashcards

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Culture

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defined as a shared system of beliefs, values, and behavioral expectations that provides social structure for daily living.
- it includes the beliefs, habits, likes, and dislikes, and customs and rituals learned from one’s family

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Subcultures

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  • Large group of people who are members of a larger cultural group
  • members have certain ethnic, occupational, or physical characteristics not common to the larger culture
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Dominant group

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  • has most authority to control values and sanctions of society
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Minority group

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a physical or cultural characteristic identifies the people as different from dominant group

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Cultural assimilation

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  • minorities living within a dominant group lose the characteristics that made them different
  • values replaced by those of dominant culture
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Culture shock

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  • the feelings a person experiences when placed inn a different culture
  • may result in psychological discomfort or disturbances
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Ethnicity

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  • sense of identification with a collective cultural group
  • largely based on group’s common heritage
  • one can belong to an ethnic group through birth or adoption of characteristics of that group
  • groups share unique cultural and social beliefs and behavior patterns
  • Largely develops through day-to-day life with family and friends within the community
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Race

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  • typically based on specific characteristics
  • skin pigmentation, body stature, facial features, hair texture
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Cultural imposition

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belief that everyone should conform to the majority belief system

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Cultural blindness

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  • ignores the differences and proceeds as if they did not exist
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ethnocentrism

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belief that one’s ideas, beliefs, and practice are the best or superior or are most preferred to those of others

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Cultural conflict

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  • people become aware of differences and feel threatened. Responses - ridiculing beliefs and traditions of others to make themselves feel more secure
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Elements of Cultural Competence

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  • recognize that each person holds various beliefs about pain and that pain is what the patient says it is
  • respect the patient’s right to respond to pain in one’s own fashion
  • never stereotype a patient’s responses to pain based on the patient’s culture
  • be sensitive to nonverbal signals of discomfort, such as holding or applying pressure to the painful area or avoiding activities that intensify the pain
  • developing self-awareness: make sure you understand norms of culture
  • Demonstrating knowledge and understanding of a patient’s culture
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