home to one of the most culturally diverse populations in the world‚ and the population continues to grow (National Health and Medical Research Council‚ 2006). This expanding diversity creates a potpourri of cultural attitudes‚ beliefs and values unlike the dominant Westernised view. The cultural differences impact on how people understand and experience end-of-life in the country. Customary practices of caring for the terminally ill that permeates in most African communities differ vastly from that
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Have you ever heard of cultural appropriation? The bottom line is it’s a modern euphemism for theft of different elements from one culture into another. I appreciate that cultural appropriation can be a very challenging and confusing issue for some to understand but one simple illustration is the adoption of rap music into white culture in the late 1900’s. Rap music initially emerged as a result of the civil rights movement in America essentially as a way to bring attention to important social issues
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Cultural Syncretism Cultural Syncretism Christina Doty Alexis Garrett American InterContinental University Online HUMA215-1205B-07 Topics in Cultural Studies Erin Pappas January 27‚ 2013 Abstract The legacies of cultural syncretism in Africa‚ and the Americas have been compared and contrasted with the resistance to cultural change Westerners encounter in China and India. The cultural factors that caused these different outcomes are discussed. This discussion is followed by the legacies
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Cultural Competence To be culturally competent the nurse needs to understand his/her own world views and those of the patient‚ while avoiding stereotyping and misapplication of scientific knowledge. Cultural competence is obtaining cultural information and then applying that knowledge. This cultural awareness allows you to see the entire picture and improves the quality of care and health outcomes. Adapting to different cultural beliefs and practices requires flexibility and a respect
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Yasmin Arianna John GLDP 525X-Globalization‚ Peace and Conflict Dr. R.Riggs Research Paper Cultural Globalization: An Adversary or Advocate for Women’s Rights in Developing Countries Introduction Globalization has created a huge impact on the lives of women in developing nations whether it was negative or positive. The word Globalization is defined as “ a complex economic‚ political‚ cultural‚ and geographic process in which mobility of capital‚ organization‚ ideas‚ discourse and peoples
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approach‚ a key issue many organizations face is empowering their employees. Empowerment is defined for purposes of this paper as the ability of employees to " . . . use more judgment and discretion in their work and to participate more fully in decisions affecting their working lives." (Potterfield‚ 1999‚ p. 2). This paper includes an analysis of the theoretical background of empowerment and why it is important to the teams-building process‚ a brief discussion of empowerment procedures (including
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Cultural Relativism: A Moral Fallacy Cultural Relativism is the theory that all belief’s are equally valid and that truth itself is relative‚ depending on the situation‚ environment and individual. Those who hold the belief of Cultural Relativist‚ hold that all beliefs are completely relative to the individual within a cultural identity. In this essay‚ I will show that cultural relativism is unreliable as an ethical theory by showing the irrationality of the arguments that support it. The
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Kristina Yerisov Cultural Competency HDFS 475 April 12‚ 2013 Cultural Competency There is a considerable amount of diversity in families all over the world‚ but there is also continuity. Core values‚ beliefs‚ rituals‚ and unique characteristics describes groups of people within a culture who live in a specific country‚ share religious values‚ have similar heritage‚ or are just grouped together for other reasons. It is important to understand that culture is more than just a “thing‚” it
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This paper is not complete but as I get it completed I will add it. General Goal of Assignment: The overall goal of this assignment is to formulate a comparison between the syncretism that occurred in Africa and in the Americas when different cultural groups met (i.e. Europeans‚ Africans‚ and Native Americans) WITH the resistance to cultural change Westerners encountered in China and India. Basically‚ you are assessing some specific consequences of the increasing global contact that began during
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Cultural Event: Morse Museum in Winter Park This is not so much a cultural event‚ as it is a cultural collection of one of the most unique ways of making art – by using glass. At the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art one can find collections of American art pottery‚ collections of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century American paintings‚ graphics‚ decorative art‚ and most importantly the works of Louis Comfort Tiffany. I visited this museum located in Winter Park‚ Florida
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