Cultural Competency Flashcards
Diversity
Includes all the ways in which individuals differ, encompassing the various characteristics that make one individual or group different from another.
Equity
Goes beyond equality (equal treatment of all people), to include the elimination of barriers and upliftment of marginalized groups, producing truly fair treatment, access, and opportunity for all people.
Inclusion
The quality of welcoming, respecting, valuing, and providing opportunities for full participation for all individuals and groups. Builds a culture of belonging.
Explicit Bias
Individuals are aware of their prejudices and attitudes toward certain groups. Overt racism or homophobic comments are examples of explicit biases.
Implicit Bias
Describes attitudes or stereotypes held toward individuals or groups of people without conscious knowledge.
Stereotypes
Generalized beliefs about an individual or group of people. It is an expectation that people might have about every person of a particular group.
Prejudices
Preconceived judgments or opinions on another person that is not based in logic or actual evidence.
Discrimination
Acting on feelings of prejudice, to treat people unfairly, based on the group(s) or class(es) to which they belong or are perceived to belong.
Microaggression
An indirect, subtle, or unintentional act of discrimination against a member or members of a marginalized group.
Macroaggression
An overt and intentional act of discrimination directed toward a member or members of a marginalized group.
Race
Any one of the groups that humans are often divided into based on physical traits regarded as common among people of shared ancestry.
Ethnicity
Of or relating to large groups of people classed according to common racial, national, tribal, religious, linguistic, or cultural origin or background.
Nationality
A legal relationship involving allegiance on the part of an individual and usually protection on the part of the state, a people having a common origin, tradition, and language and capable of forming or constituting a nation-state.
Racism
A belief that race is a fundamental determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.
Systemic/structural racism
An infrastructure of rulings, ordinances, or statutes promulgated by a sovereign government or authoritative entity, whereas such ordinances and statutes entitle one ethnic group in a society certain rights and privileges, while denying other groups in that society these same rights and privileges because of long-established cultural prejudices, religious prejudices, fears, myths, and xenophobias held by the entitled group.
