Key Terms for Cultural Competence Cultural Competence: The effective integration of cultural awareness and cultural knowledge to meet needs of culturally diverse clients Cultural Accommodation: Supporting and facilitating the use of cultural practices that have not been found to be harmful to the client. Cultural Repatterning: Working with clients to make changes in health practices when the client’s cultural behaviors are harmful or decrease their well being. Cultural Preservation: The support
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Russian cultural differences in business. Tips for American to avoid cultural conflict. First of all‚ considering that Russian is my native language‚ I will warn that it is extremely hard for an American to learn Russian. Grammar is difficult‚ and we use the Cyrillic alphabet. But this will not be a big problem because every person with higher education in Russia speaks English fluently; we start learning English from 2-3 grades at school. Secondarily‚ names. Referring to one another by the first
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The colonist and the Indians faced each other with many prejudices‚ many times leading to war. Most of their problems were due to the misunderstanding of cultural differences between the two people. Each side struggled with trust amongst one another making it easier to not to work with each other. The problems between the colonist and the Indians are exemplified in two different stories‚ “A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary” written by Mary Rowlandson and the film The Last
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Cultural tourism is referred to the kind of tourism‚ which is concerned with the culture of a specific region or country‚ particularly in the arts. It basically focuses on the traditional communities that have diverse customs as well as the forms of art and the distinct social practices that distinguish a certain culture from the others. It would include tourism in the urban areas and even the historic and large cities‚ including facilities like theaters and museums. It also includes this in the
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made up idea called cultural relativism. Cultural relativism means each individual understands everyone’s beliefs and activities. But there are many issues that challenges this idea. Furthermore‚ because there are many different cultures in the world there are many different moral codes. For an example the Greeks and the Callatians practice totally different ideas of funerals. The Callatians use to eat the bodies of their fathers. Doing this in today standards for our cultural would be unethical and
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4304/jltr.3.1.74-84 Cultural Awareness and Translation Teaching at Higher Vocational College: Problems and Solutions Xuelian He Quzhou College of Technology‚ Quzhou‚ Zhejiang‚ China Email: angelaxl@163.com Abstract—In this paper‚ an investigation has been done on culture knowledge acquisition and cultural awareness of English majors at Higher Vocational College by taking the students at Quzhou College of Technology as the subjects. The problem of lack of culture knowledge and cultural awareness has
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Read carefully the following piece of text. What does it tell us about cross cultural encounters? In analysing this text and what it tells us about cross cultural encounters‚ we must ask and answer several questions. What is the interpretation of the text? What do we understand from the text? How was the text wrote? Who was it wrote by? And‚ is it representative of both sides? In interpreting the text we see that it is a piece taken from the “Trial of Chief Ologobosheri” and
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February 4‚ 2011 Cultural Competence in Physical Therapy Practice To be culturally competent physical therapists need to understand their own world view and those of the patient‚ while avoiding stereotyping and misapplication of scientific knowledge (cross‚ et al. 1989). Therapists must take into account eight characteristics that involve the dimensions of diversity: age‚ race‚ gender‚ sexual orientation‚ ethnicity‚ mental and physical activity‚ religion and socioeconomic status. But before they
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Marketing Equitable Ethnic Cultural Tourism in China Alf H. Walle Clark University at Shandong University of Science and Technology China is one of the world’s great cultural areas and‚ as such‚ many people are interested in exploring the country and experiencing its people and heritage. While many tourists focus on well known historic sites such as the Forbidden City‚ the Great Wall‚ or Mount Tai‚ the ethnic minorities of China are gaining increased attention and are spotlighted here. This growing
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its own method to conducting business. Such methods are intrinsically cultural bound. In order to understand how the different systems work one must first understand the values that underlie it. Thus‚ managers‚ employees‚ business partners and other corporate stakeholders must recognise that the methods they use‚ to make their decisions‚ solve their problems and deals with other people are all done by reflecting on their cultural backgrounds and perspectives (Mead‚ 2009; Mott‚ 2004; Hofstede‚ 2005)
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