Cultual & Ethnic Ch 8 Flashcards
Culture
A set of learned values, beliefs, customs, and practices that are shared by a group and are passed from one generation to another
Society
A nation, community, or board group of people who established particular Ames, believes, or standards of living and conduct
Subculture
Share many characteristics with the primary culture, but has characteristic patterns of behavior And ideals that distinguish it from the rest of this cultural group
Variations within cultural group accord because of individual differences such as: (8)
Age,
religion,
dialect and language spoken,
gender identity and roles,
socioeconomic background, geographic location of country of Origin or current residence,
amount and type of interaction between younger and older generation, degree to which values in current country are adopted
Stereotype
Generra lysed expectation about forms of behavior, an individual, or a group
Ethnic stereotype
A fixed concept of how all members of the group after think.
Stereotypes sometimes do and sometimes do not have any relationship to reality
Ethnocentrism
When people look at the world from their own cultural view point. They often believe that the police and practices of their particular culture best
Cultural competence
To give care to patients from many different cultures.
This means that you are aware of your own cultural believes and practices and how they relate to those of others, which will be different
Transcultural nursing
Understanding these variables and integrating your understanding into all aspects of nursing care
It is important to understand that people from different cultures:
Have a variety of practices related to health care, treatment methods, and responses to illness and death
cultural believes frequently affect diet and nutrition
Race
A group of people who share biological physical characteristics
Ethnicity
Refers to a group of people who share a common social and cultural heritage based on shared tradition, national origin, and physical and biological characteristics
Communication
Even among English-speaking people different cultural groups assign different meaning to the Same words
Among American Indian, Chinese, and Japanese cultures, silence is sometimes used:
To allow the listener to consider what the speaker has said before continuing
Russians, the French, and the Spanish, tend to become silent to:
Indicate consensus between parties
In Asian cultures people often use silence as:
A sign of respect, specially to elders
Mexicans will perhaps you silent Wednesday:
Disagree with the person of authority
In other cultures the presence of silence creates:
Discomfort, and people will make every attempt to fill gas in conversation
United States many people consider even casual touching what?
Inappropriate except among intimate
Recent immigrants from England and Germany or what about touch?
Even less likely that Americans to touch each other in public or allow casual touching by strangers
Spanish, French, Italian, Jewish, and South American individuals are likely to what about touching?
To be much more comfortable about touching each other and being touched
US and eye contact
United States regard maintaining eye contact as an indication of openness, interest in others, attentiveness, and honesty. Lack of eye contact is thus interpreted as a sign of shyness, humility, guilt, embarrassment, rudeness, thoughtlessness, dishonesty
Some Asian cultures in American Indians relate eye contact to what
Impoliteness or an invasion of privacy
Certain east Indian cultures do what with eye contact
Avoid eye contact with people of lower or higher socioeconomic classes
