Personal Narrative: My Own Socio-Cultural Position

2. My own socio-cultural position is that I am female Australia born caucasian with Irish heritage, which means I belong to dominate culture. Belonging to the dominate culture I understand I come from a position of privileged, which can have many implications when working with people from CALD Backgrounds (Kendall, 2001). Firstly, many people from CALD background may view me in a position of superiority due to my position of privilege. This view of superiority could make them feel disempower and feel uncomfortable engaging with me (Nylund, 2008). In addition, my views and perspective are that of western views such as an individualist approach. This could have implication as there could be a cultural misunderstanding, different values and