Ethnic-sensitive Practice

Question 1

What is ethnic-sensitive practice?

Answer 1

Ethnic-sensitive practice seeks to incorporate understanding of diverse ethnic, cultural, and minority groups into the theories and principles that guide social service practice

Question 2

How should a Social Service Professional take ‘cultural relativism’ position?

Answer 2

• The position on cultural relativism is that norm for oneself may not be for another society
• Different culture groups think, feel and act differently
• Social Service Professional should possess knowledge of one’s own culture, ample information about the nature of different cultural groups, and good understanding of their roots and practices
• When dealing with clients from different social groups, Social Service Professional need to negotiate in order to succeed by getting different parties concerned to understand reasons for differences in their viewpoints

Question 3

What is ‘Ethnocentrism’?

Answer 3

Ethnocentrism is the belief that one’s own culture is superior to that of other cultures