Culture

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race

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a social category used to classify humankind according to common ancestry or descent and reliant upon differentiation by General physical characteristics such as skin colour, eyes, hair type, stature, and facial features
NOT CONSIDERED CULTURE

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Ethnicity

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group or community; identification with a shared heritage, culture, language, or religion

members feel a sense of identity

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Visible minority

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applies to persons who are identified according to the Employment Equity Act as being non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour

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what is “culture”?

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A way of life of a group of people, the behaviours, beliefs, values, and symbols that they accept, and are passed along by communication and imitation
Culture is not static or homogenous

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multiculturalism

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a heterogeneous society in which diverse cultural world views can coexist with some general characteristics shared by all culture groups and some perspectives that are unique to a particular population

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subcultures

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a smaller group of people living within the dominant culture who have adopted a cultural lifestyle distinct from that of the mainstream population

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examples of “othering”

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• ethnocentrism
• stereotypes
• discrimination
• racism

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ethnocentrism

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a belief that one’s own culture should be the norm and is considered better

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stereotypes

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generalizations about a group

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discrimination

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treating others unfairly on the basis of their group membership

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othering

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a way of distancing “them” from “us”

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racism

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specific actions and as attitude whereby one group exerts power over others on the basis of either skin colour or racial heritage
-effects are to marginalized and oppress some people and to endow others with privileges

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cultural awareness

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beginning step toward understanding that there is difference between and among people
-involves observing people’s different activities and how they go about doing them

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cultural competence

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explicit use of culturally based care and health knowledge in sensitive, creative, and meaningful ways to fit the general lifeways and needs of individuals or groups for beneficial and meaningful health and well-being or to help them face illness, disabilities, or death