RADT 101: Ch 10 Human Diversity

Assimilation

Key Terms:

Process by which people of diverse backgrounds slowly give

up their original cultural language and identity and melt into another,

usually larger, group

Bias

Key Terms:

Prejudice; thinking negatively of others without any or significant

justification; generally a combination of stereotyped beliefs and

negative attitudes

Biculturalism

Key Terms:

Being able to negotiate two or more different cultures

competently, individual and mainstream

Culture

Key Terms:

Of or relating to culture

Cultures

Key Terms:

All of the socially transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs,

institutions, and all other products of human work and thoughts by

particular classes, communities, or populations

Discrimination

Key Terms:

Actions involved in the unequal or prejudicial treatment of

people because they belong to a certain category, group, or race. May

also include disability, ethnicity, and sexual orientation

Diverse

Key Terms:

Differing from one another; made up of distinct characteristics,

qualities, or elements

Diversity

Key Terms:

Fact or quality of being diverse, different (all of the ways in

which human beings are both similar and different)

Key Terms:

Designating any of the basic groups or divisions of humankind or of

a heterogeneous population, as distinguished by customs,

characteristics, language, and common history; national origin

Ethnicity

Key Terms:

Ethnic affiliation or classification

Ethnocentrism

Key Terms:

Tendency toward viewing the norms and values of the

individual’s own culture as absolute and using them as a standard

against which all other cultures are measured

Gender

Key Terms:

Chromosomal designation of female or male being

Homophobia

Key Terms:

Irrational fear of and hostility toward homosexuality

LGBTQ+

Key Terms:

An acronym used to describe individuals who identify as other

than heterosexual, i.e. lesbian, gay, bisexual, transexual, queer and/or

questioning, intersex, and asexual and/or ally, plus others

Mental and Physical Abilities

Key Terms:

Capacity to perform cognitive and psychomotor tasks

Race

Key Terms:

Population that differs from others in the relative frequency of some

gene or genes; any of the different varieties of humankind,

distinguished by type of hair, color of eyes and skin, stature, bodily

proportions, or other characteristics

Racism

Key Terms:

Belief in racial superiority, leading to discrimination and prejudice

toward races considered inferior

Religion

Key Terms:

Belief in a divine or superhuman power or powers, to be obeyed

and worshipped as the creator(s) and ruler(s) of the universe

Globalization, increase, multicultural

Human Diversity:

• __________ simply means that people now cross borders into other countries to work, go to school, receive medical care, visit, and live.

• This _______ in globalization means that nations, societies, and businesses have become increasingly cross-cultural or ________.

Cultural competency, interactions

Human Diversity:

• ________ ________ is defined as possessing a set of attitudes,behaviors, and policies that come together in a system, or among individuals, to enable effective __________ in a cross-cultural framework.

• Understanding and accepting the types of diversity are core to this process.

characteristics

Characteristics:

• Diversity includes many human _________ that affect our perceptions of ourselves and others, individual values, opportunities, and acceptance.

biases, understanding

Characteristics:

• The impact of some ______ can be lessened through knowledge.

• The more that is known about a subject, the better the _________ of the subject will be.

characteristics

Characteristics:

• most prevalent ____________ in society are

  • Age

  • Ethnicity and national origin

  • Race

  • Gender and sexual orientation

  • Mental and physical ability

  • Religion

age

Characteristics - Age:

• Some cultures and individuals assign different values based on ___.

Millennials

Characteristics - Age:

The current leading generation by population is the _____, which make up 25%.

baby boomers

Characteristics - Age:

• ______ ________ are peoples born from 1946 go 1964

Generation X

Characteristics - Age:

• __________ _ includes persons born from 1965 to 1980

Millennial

Characteristics - Age:

• Generation Y (or ________) designation is applied to those born from 1981 to 1999.

Generation Z

Characteristics - Age:

• ________ _(New Silent Generation) refers to those born from 2000 to the 2012 .

increase, longer

Characteristics - Age:

• In the coming decades ______ in the number of senior citizens and their proportion will occur in the total U.S. population

• Projections are that the older adult population will increase over the next three decades, with persons 85 years of age or older being the fastest growing segment of the population.

• These individuals are expected to stay in the workforce longer because they are expected to live ______than previous generations.

youth, aging, contributions, inferior

Characteristics - Age:

common social biases

• Valuing ______ over age

• Viewing of _____ as something undesirable or bad

• Placing little value on the __________ of senior citizens

• Favoring reactive instead of proactive approaches to policy development and implementation

• Considering all senior citizens to be mentally _______

Age Discrimination in Employment Act

Characteristics - Age:

• The___ ______ __ _______ ____, 29 USC §§621-634, was passed with the intent of preventing employers from exhibiting discrimination based solely on age in hiring, promotion, job assignment, compensation, and termination.

melting pot,ethnic

Characteristics - Ethnicity, National Origin, and Race

• The United States has long considered itself a ____ ____of people with diverse _____heritages.

Immigration

Characteristics - Ethnicity, National Origin, and Race

• _______ has been discouraged through the U.S./Mexico border, and from African nations, as well as El Salvador, and Haiti.

opportunities, persecution

Characteristics - Ethnicity, National Origin, and Race

• Some of those who now call America home came to pursue the promised _________, others came to escape ________ and oppression, and still others were brought to this country under servitude.

• Whatever the reason that individuals come to and remain in America, all are considered Americans.

Native Americans

Characteristics - Ethnicity, National Origin, and Race

• The settlers and the ______ _______who inhabited the land before its existence were the first diverse ethnic groups in the United States.

largest

Characteristics - Ethnicity, National Origin, and Race

• Hispanic/ Latino populations in the US are the ________ minority group in the US

racism, eurocentrism

Characteristics - Ethnicity, National Origin, and Race

• When ______ and __________ are allowed to exist within a society, discrimination, prejudice, and oppression are often also evident and expressed.

cultures

Characteristics - Ethnicity, National Origin, and Race

• For individuals to live and work together for the mutual good of everyone, people must learn to value the contributions of all individuals, respect all ________, and live together as one race: human.

Assimilation, minority

Characteristics - Ethnicity, National Origin, and Race

• _________, by definition, promotes a loss of the contributions and customs of a ______ culture as individuals try to become accepted by the majority or mainstream culture.

African American

Some Core Values Exhibited by the More Prevalent Ethnic Cultures Within the US Population:

• Extended family

• Cooperation

• Spirituality

• Interdependence

Latino

Some Core Values Exhibited by the More Prevalent Ethnic Cultures Within the US Population:

• Extended family

• Father as patriarch

• Respect

• Hierarchical relationships

Mexican American

Some Core Values Exhibited by the More Prevalent Ethnic Cultures Within the US Population:

• Extended family (close-knit)

• Curanderism (Mexican folk healing)

• Frequent contact with native country (Mexico)

• Respect

Native American

Some Core Values Exhibited by the More Prevalent Ethnic Cultures Within the US Population:

• Extended family

• Spiritualism

• Collectivism

• Unified whole universe

US mainstream

Some Core Values Exhibited by the More Prevalent Ethnic Cultures Within the US Population:

• Activity and hard work

• Personal achievement and success

• Individualism

• Efficiency and practicality

• Affluence, consumerism, and material comfort

• Competition

• Openness, directness, and being well informed

stereotyping, values

Characteristics - Ethnicity, National Origin, and Race

What must be understood so that generalizations and ______about an ethnic group are not fostered is that not all members of a specific cultural group share the ____of the group as a whole and not all members show absolute compliance with their defining culture.

Linguistic, communication

Characteristics - Ethnicity, National Origin, and Race

• _________differences cause problems with communication.

• The quality of healthcare delivery depends to a great extent on

  __________between providers and consumers.

information

Characteristics - Ethnicity, National Origin, and Race

• If a patient does not or cannot understand their healthcare providers, and vice versa, essential _________cannot be communicated.

What is your name

Characteristics - Ethnicity, National Origin, and Race

• Spanish: ¿Hola, cuál es su nombre?

Take a deep breath

Characteristics - Ethnicity, National Origin, and Race

• Spanish: Tomar una respiración profunda.

Hold your breath

Characteristics - Ethnicity, National Origin, and Race

• Spanish: Contenga La respiracion

Breathe

Characteristics - Ethnicity, National Origin, and Race

• Spanish: Respirar

Show me where you are hurt

Characteristics - Ethnicity, National Origin, and Race

• Spanish: Muestrame donde daeles

bilingual, interpreters, translators, documents

Characteristics - Ethnicity, National Origin, and Race

To provide improved medical care to individuals without or with limited English proficiency, hospitals …

• hire ________ and bicultural staff

• provide medical _________

• provide medical ________

• encourage employees to become bilingual or multilingual

• provide medical _________in different languages

biologically, intersex

Characteristics - Gender and Sexual Orientation:

• Human beings are typically classified ______by sex into female or male

• 1 in 500 infants are born _______, with physical and/or genetic characteristics that do not adhere to the category of specifically female or male.

Gender roles

Characteristics - Gender and Sexual Orientation:

• _____ ____ describe the biologic or chromosomal sexual identity of an individual.

Gender identity

Characteristics - Gender and Sexual Orientation:

• _____ _____ can be described as an inner sense of maleness, femaleness, some combination thereof, or neither

• may be influenced by several factors, including culture.

glass ceiling

Characteristics - Gender and Sexual Orientation:

• women within fields such as officers, physicians, lawyer, politicians, etc. often face a ______ _______, in which they are precluded from being promoted or elected to high-level positions because of their gender.

female

Characteristics - Gender and Sexual Orientation:

• In the early 1900s, traditional _______roles outside of the home were in the areas of teaching, clerical work, and nursing.

predisposed

Characteristics - Gender and Sexual Orientation:

• Many adults are _________in their thinking as to what boys should do and what girls should do.

Gender role stereotyping, capabilities

Characteristics - Gender and Sexual Orientation:

• _____ _____ ________ is the expectation of how people should behave based solely on whether they are male or female beings.

• These stereotypes have nothing to do with the individual’s _______, but they limit their alternatives.

Heterosexual

Characteristics - Gender and Sexual Orientation:

• ________ individuals are persons who are mentally, physically, and/or sexually attracted to individuals of the opposite gender.

Homosexual

Characteristics - Gender and Sexual Orientation:

• ________, lesbian, or gay individuals are persons who are mentally, physically, and/or sexually attracted to persons of their same gender.

Bisexual

Characteristics - Gender and Sexual Orientation:

• ________people are persons who are mentally, physically, and/or sexually attracted to members of both genders.

same-sex

Characteristics - Gender and Sexual Orientation:

• As of 2020, 37 states and the District of Columbia had legalized ____-___ marriages, either by court decision, by state legislatures, or by popular vote.

KSix, individuals

Characteristics - Gender and Sexual Orientation:

• Dr. Kinsey

• ____ provides data on the prevalence of ________with homosexual and bisexual tendencies compared with those having strictly heterosexual tendencies.

• scale that included six parameters of sexual tendencies within the population.

heterosexual, homosexual

Characteristics - Gender and Sexual Orientation:

• 0: Exclusively ________ experiences

• 6: exclusively ________experiences

preferred name, trust

Characteristics - Gender and Sexual Orientation:

• Radiologic and imaging sciences professional to address patients as they prefer to be addressed.

• This information should be noted in the health record as the patient’s ______ ____.

• establishes ____ to care for the pt

dead name

Characteristics - Gender and Sexual Orientation:

• People who have taken a new name that reflects their identity often refer to their birth name as a ____ ____ .

intelligence quotient

Characteristics - Mental and Physical Ability:

• The ________ ______(IQ) is used to determine if individuals have normal, superior, or inferior intellectual capability.

Physical, mental, tasks, everyday

Characteristics - Mental and Physical Ability:

• ______and ________parameters are used to judge whether individuals are able to perform ____ that are considered essential to ______life at the level of persons who are considered normal.

Americans with Disabilities, discrimination, protection, institutions, accommodations

Characteristics - Mental and Physical Ability:

• The _________ ____ __________ Act of 1990 was a step in preventing discrimination against persons with disabilities.

  • Provides _________(law) for people with mental or physical disabilities

  • directs __________, especially those receiving federal funds,

  • ___________ for persons with disabilities.

    • Facilities are required to be accessible to all individuals.

Rules, Equalization, opportunities, disabilities, rights, equal

Characteristics - Mental and Physical Ability:

• 1993 the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution: Standard ____on the ________of _______for People with _______.

• ensures that people with disabilities be allowed to exercise the same ____

• obligations requires states to remove obstacles to ______participation.

human rights, freedoms, universal, disabilities

Characteristics - Mental and Physical Ability:

• Vienna Declaration for Human Rights (1993) states that that all _____ _____ and fundamental _______are _______and thus unreservedly include persons with ______.

Autonomy, consideration, decisions

Four Core Values of Human Rights Law and How Each Relates

to Individuals with a Disability:

• ________: Provides respect for the right of persons with a disability to have self-directed actions and behaviors and requires that the individual be the ultimate _________and at the center of all ________that affect her/him

Dignity, mechanisms, value, regardless

Four Core Values of Human Rights Law and How Each Relates

to Individuals with a Disability:

• _________: Provides ______that recognize and support the inestimable ______ of, because of them inherent self-worth, every individual, ________ of ability

equality, treatment, differences

Four Core Values of Human Rights Law and How Each Relates

to Individuals with a Disability:

• ________: Relates to the fair and equal treatment of everyone, regardless of perceived differences, including a disability

Solidarity, society, individuals, mechanisms

Four Core Values of Human Rights Law and How Each Relates

to Individuals with a Disability:

• ________: Requires ______to support and maintain the freedoms of _______with application of the appropriate social ________

disabled, perception

Characteristics - Mental and Physical Ability:

• Avoiding the term ______, which tends to provoke a negative mindset because of the prefix dis (meaning “to deprive of”)

• think of these individuals as being differently abled, might promote a different mindset and alter society’s _________.

diversity, religious beliefs

Characteristics - Religion:

• It must be remembered that to embrace cultural diversity, we must embrace cultural differences in _____ _____ and practice.

offend, insulting

Characteristics - Religion:

• The radiologic and imaging sciences professional must be careful not to ______the patient by ignoring or ______ their beliefs or lack thereof.

different, conflict, cultures, society

Embracing Diversity:

• By recognizing, accepting, and learning about cultures that may be ______from their own, people can learn ways of avoiding _______among cultures and enjoy a more inclusive, representative, nondiscriminatory _______.

Misconceptions, diversity

Embracing Diversity:

• __________ are developed and fostered by the beliefs and experiences of others and not as a result of personal contact.

• By learning ways to accommodate ________, people can become increasingly adept at dealing with others.

Knowledge, individuals, polices, attitudes, settings

Embracing Diversity:

• _________about ___________and groups of people should be integrated and transformed into standards, _________, practices, and ________that are used in the appropriate cultural _________so as to increase the quality of services.

Cultural competency

Developing Cultural Competency

• _________ ______ : possessing a set of attitudes, congruent, behaviors, and polies that come together in a system to enable effective interactions cross culturally

diversity, self-assessment, dynamics, Institutionalizing, adaptations

Developing Cultural Competency:

• elements to contribute to the ability of an agency to be culturally competency

1. Valuing ________

2. Possessing the capacity for cultural ____-__________

3. Having a consciousness of the ________of cross-cultural

interaction

4. ________ cultural knowledge

5. Developing __________of service delivery that reflect an

understanding of a multicultural environment