between Ethnocentrism and Cultural Relativism The world today consists of an incalculable number of societies. Each society varies significantly in the different elements of culture. Culture is one’s designed way of living based on erudite customs‚ knowledge‚ material items‚ and behavior. Within every society today lives an ethnocentric attitude. The belief that ones own culture is superior to that of another’s. However‚ it is important to develop a sense of cultural relativism in today’s society
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CULTURAL COMPETENCY Cultural competency is communicating and accepting everyone with no cultural barriers • Ensuring that the everyone the setting are aware of their own culture and have a clear view about other cultures • Ensuring that everyone has a positive attitude towards other cultures and belief. • Ensuring that everyone in the settings has a good knowledge about the different cultural practices across the world. • Ensuring everyone are skilled in communicating and interacting with people
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York College‚ City University of New York - Program in Cultural Diversity Fall 2010 ASSIGNMENT ONE: ‘SHOW-N-TELL’ AND CULTURAL MONOLOGUE (10 points) For this Assignment‚ each student will undertake the following: PART 1: Artifact Presentation (Show and Tell): You are expected to bring in some special material object (artifact) that is representative of your culture (T-shirts‚ baseball caps‚ passports‚ currency‚ miniature flags‚ coffee mugs‚ key-ring holders‚ music CDs‚ DVDs
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Cultural Relativism Introduction According to www.gotquestions.org/cultural-relavitsim‚ cultural relativism is the view that all beliefs‚ customs‚ and ethics are related to the social norms and culture that one comes from. In other words‚ right and wrong or good and bad are culture-specific‚ meaning that what is reflected moral in one society may be reflected immoral in another. Therefore‚ since no collective standard of morality subsists‚ no one has the right to judge another society’s customs
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Introduction and Background After finished the second public consultation on the three models (City Park‚ Cultural Connect and Project for a New Dimension)‚ West Kowloon Cultural District (WKCD) project arouse public’s attention again. It was first announced by Tung Chee-hwa in 1998 to develop Hong Kong as the cultural hub in Asia with world-class facilities inside the district including theatres‚ performance venues‚ museums‚ exhibition centers and piazzas. However‚ after the first public consultation
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Cultural Relativism is a perspective that moral codes vary from culture to culture‚ no moral code within in a culture is superior to the other codes in different cultures; This ideology comes from that there is no universal truth‚ meaning there is no philosophical standard that determines if something is either right or wrong‚ therefore one cannot establish that something is “better.” In “The Challenge of Cultural Relativism‚” James Rachels introduces the topic by introducing Darius whom is a king
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9/30/14 MRA: “The Challenge of Cultural Relativism” In the text "The Challenge of Cultural Relativism‚" James Rachels breaks down and discusses the theory of Cultural Relativism by presenting the pros and cons of this theory. He exposes some of the shortcomings of the theory arguing that some of the claims are wrong and contradictory. The theory of Cultural Relativism states that “there is no such thing as universal truth in ethics; there are only the various cultural codes.” In other words‚ the
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OF THE STUDY: (Culturally Diverse Nursing) The perception of nurses on working with other nurses of different nationalities and cultural backgrounds and its impact on their working relationship and patient care. BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Globalization has led to the creation of a new social world‚ one which is characterized by its cultural diversity. Cultural diversity in the nursing workforce is now becoming the common face of different healthcare organizations across the globe. The nursing
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CULTURE AND CULTURAL ANALYSIS AS EXPERIMENTAL SYSTEMS In this weeks reading by Michael M.J. Fischer provides a spectrum of definitions of what culture embodies. Fischer also supplies a vast amount of examples that relate to various classifications of cultures. He describes “cultures as a methodological concept or tool of inquiry‚ might best be understood in terms of its historically layered growth of specifications and differentiations‚ refined into a series of “experimental systems” that‚ in
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Giorgia Frizzi‚ 23rd July 2010 ’’Globalization‚ Localization‚ Glocalization’’ Research Paper. Does globalization weaken cultural diversity or does it foster it? Effects of Globalization in Cultural differentiation 1. Introduction. As some of us may know‚ the term “globalize” started being used in the modern times. However globalization as an idea has been brought up since even before the 1500’s when people started forming connections between communities‚ and therefore creating forms of communication
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