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Culture

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Set of values, beliefs, customs, and behaviors that connect a group

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Biological Culture

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born into

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cultural heritage

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cultture we learn

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cultural identity

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by actions, postures, gestures, and tones of voice, facial expressions, through emotions, way we handle time

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cultural characteristics can be

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learned, shared, adaptive, and dynamic

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enculturation

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aquiring charecteristics of ones culture and becoming compitent in its language.

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socialization

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learning social norms of ones culture( ie: mother, father)

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assimilation

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groups of one culture adopt another culture

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structural assimilation

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when 2 groups share the primary groups relationships

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cultural relativism

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attempting to describe a different culture

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ethnocentrism

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inability to view other cultures as equal

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acculturation

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when the cultural patterns of a dominant group are adopted by a less dominant group

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stereotype

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when you combine everyone in the same cultural group with the same values, belies, customs, and behaviors

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how is culture manifested?

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values, non-verbal communication, and language

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what is popular assimilation theory?

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melting pot, basically melting all cultures together

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name the video clips in order

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attitude, kindness, joy, butterfly, line

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guestimated % of minorites by 2035?

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40%

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what is cultural compitency

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A set of congruent behaviors , attitudes, and policies that come together in a system, agency, or amongst professionals to work effectively in cross-cultural situations

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Race

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a physical charecteristic like color

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% of caucasions will decrease to what by 2050?

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from 64.7 to 46.3

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common themes and practices among culture

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race, language, food family, education, health, holidays, work ethic

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generalization

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A beginning. You begin with an assumption , then seek further information about whether the assumption fits that individual. You attempt to make sense of information by assigning some characteristic to it.

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stereotype

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and end point. You make an assumption about someone based on group membership without learning if the individual actually fits the assumption

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platinum rule

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Do unto others as they would have done unto them

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Alienation
feeling out of place and not fitting in.
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dissonance
discord, disharmony, feeling out of sync, offbeat, kind of out of the loop
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Marginality
Identifying with two groups but not fitting in either, being rejected by both
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dualism
Being involved in 2 cultures and having to hide that from one
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Negotiation for acceptance
having to justify being in a particular role
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bicultural affirmation
belong to 2 cultural groups and both know and appreciate the other.
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Multicultural transformation
interacting with many cultures and over time all participants change for the better
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What does cultural competence require?
1. Awareness of self and ones own value system 2. An understanding of the concept of culture and its role as a factor in health care 3. A sensitivity to cultural issues for each patient 4. having methods to deal with people of different cultures
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cultural compitence continum
destructiveness, incapacity, blindness, pre- compitency, compitence, proficiency
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cultural destructiveness
" one way of doing somthing and thats it"
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cultural incapacity
separate but equal, accepts them but wants nothing to do with them
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cultural blindness
everyone is the same,
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cultural pre-compitence
encourages learning of other cultures
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cultural competence
actively seeking advice and consultation and a commitment to incorparate new knowledge and experiences into a wider range of practice
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cultural profficency
working with someone with differences
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competence
basically means able to work with others
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cultural charecteristics
are Learned, Shared, Adaptive, Dynamic
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how does culture manifest itself
values , nonverbal communication, language
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What is the explanatory model of illness?
its used to hypothesize how a patient interprets and defines symptoms (8 questions)
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first 4 questions
1. what do you call your illness? 2. what do you think caused it? 3. why and when did it start? 4. what do you think the illness does? how does it work?
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second 4
5. what kind of treatment does it need? 6. how severe is it? 7. what are the chief problems the illness has caused? 8. what do you fear most about it?
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structural diversity
numerical distribution of students and faculty
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curriculum diversity
the curriculum has diversity in it
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institutional diversity
focuses on the general environment ( allows for different environments to learn)
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primary socialization
when people learn attitudes, values and actions that are approriate to a particular culture
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anticipatory socialization
when someone acutally rehearses for future positions ( kind of like I did for dental school interviews)
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monochronic time
doing one thing at a time, stick to a schedule ( north americans, europeans)
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polychonic time
do many things at once, ( latin americans ,middle east)
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Taboo
refers to a cultures point on public behavior
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High context communication
most background information already within the person, little in the message, Rely on complexity ( Asia, Japan) , Very polite, respectfull, not direct
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Low context communication
most information is in the message, say what you mean ( america/ western), open , true, direct
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face saving
allows to not have to admit someone is wrong and saves them embaressement
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prejuduce
negative prejudgment we have already formed without knowing that person( remember stereotypes are what we expect out of an individual)
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interperate vs translate
interperate is spoken, Translate is written
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tips using an interpereter
positioning, 1st person, exact interpretation, short sentences, presession
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why use an interpretor?
quality of care, legal reasons, financial concerns
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what problems did the lee family have with interpretors?
nao kao hated the professional one, most of the time it was just relatives
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why is it important to document when using interpretors?
basically to cover your butt
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What does LEARN mean
Listen, Explain, Acknoledge, Recommend, Negotiate..... with patients
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What does hmong mean
" the people"
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where did the hmong traditionally live in laos?
mountains
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what was the hmong attitude toward life?
fight or flee
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quag dab pag
spirit catches you and you fall down
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communication misunderstandings involve
verbal and nonverbal
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Idioms
sayings that only the culture understands like closed hand
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Haptics
touch
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proxemics
personal space
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what is a nuclear family?
multiple families all in one house
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what are health disparities?
gaps in the quality of health care that mirror differences in socioeconomic status
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examples of health disparities
asthma , aids, hepatitis, asthma, std's
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health disparities take many forms such as
ethnicity and culture, geographic background, life experiences, beliefs, phyisiology, working styles
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patient behavior patterns can be 1 of 3 things
efficacious( beneficial), neutral, dysfunctional
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efficacious example
chiropractor
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neutral
doesnt hurt, can only help.
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dysfunctional
hurts the patient
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approaches of culturally competent clinicians
understand, empathy, patience, respect, ability, trust
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What is a CAM
a group of health care practices not considered part of conventional medicine ( 5 categories)
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alternative medical systems
complete medicines of theory, homeopathic, chinese medicine
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mind-body interventions
techniques that enhance the minds capacity to affect body ( yoga)
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biologically based therapies
substances like herbs
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manipulatice and body-based methods
chiropractic , massage
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energy therapies
uses energy fields ( reiki- art of body movement with regular breathing) ( oi gong- deep relazation and a sense of well being)
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Una de gato ( cats claw)
arthritis, ulcers, tumors and GI conditions
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Cinchona
headaches, leg cramps, colds
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guarana
fatique, reduce hunger, weight loss
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lapacho
worlds greatest and oldest herbs for infections, chemotherapy, and arthritis
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pasiflora incarnata ( passion flower)
reduce axiety and tenstion, insomnia
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suma
known as brazilian ginseng and para todo " for all"
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yerba mate
dietary staple during times of drought or famine. also gives diarreah as mike said
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how many people are illiterate?
50%

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