Cultural Diversity Notes

Culture

• explicit or implicit

• primarily learned and transmitted within a family

• shared by most members of a culture

• unconscious

• powerful influence on healthcare and illness

cultural diversity - coexistence of different ethnic, racial and socioeconomic groups within one social unit

• shared system of beliefs, values, and behavioral expectations

• combination of knowledge, body of belief, body of behavior

• social structure of living

• influences roles, interactions

• apparent in the attitudes and institutions unique

groups in society

• dominant group - has most authority to control values and sanctions of society

• minority group - have a physical or cultural characteristic that identifies people from the dominant group

subculture

• members have certain ethnic occupational or physical characteristics not common to the larger culture

• differentiates itself by developing their own norms and values regarding cultural political and sexual matters

ethnicity

• sense of identification with a cultural group

• largely based on groups common heritage

• can be adopted or born into that group

• share unique cultural and social beliefs

race

• based on specific characteristics

• major categories

  • African American/black

  • Asian

  • American or Alaska native

  • NHPI

  • white

cultural awareness

recognize and respected the differences and similarities of different culture

cultural sensitivity

• stereotyping

• implicit bias

• cultural imposition

• cultural blindness

• culture conflict

Influence on healthcare

• Physiologic variations

• reactions to pain

• mental health

• assigned sex roles

• language and communication

• orientation to time and space

• food and nutrition

• family support

• socioeconomic factors

• health disparities

cultural competence - being aware of what you know and don’t know

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attiutede- how you feel towards another cul