Death customs

Everyone comes from a cultural background carrying a different set of beliefs. Much of your identity is influenced by the environment in which you grew up in and by how you were brought up and raised. Since birth, you were taught by your parents and community a standard in which ways to behave, in which ways to interact with others respectively, in which is right from wrong, the list goes on. These are just a few that are ingrained in someone unknowingly. If one were to immerse himself fully…

The underlying theory of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is cognitive and behavioral theories. Cognitive theory deals with schemas or core beliefs that every person possesses. Core beliefs come from the way a person is raised by their family members and include culture, values, and morals. It is the way they have been raised to view the world since birth. These beliefs are ingrained into each family member. Behaviors are believed to be taught through the environment (Chilcott, 2013). There are…

Ethnocentrism is the attitude of considering one’s own culture as superior and as the right one, and looking down on other cultures. Ethnocentrism leads to valuing certain beliefs and behaviors that people share in a community and ethnocentric people believe that their way of living and behavior is the natural and normal way. Hmong people migrated to the United States from Laos to escape the ongoing war, and their culture and beliefs collided with American cultural in several ways. Hmong’s and…

especially among younger Hmong children. The reason for the Hmong disapproval of anesthesia is because they believe that when their body is unconscious their soul is wandering and could potentially be taken by soul taking dab resulting in an illness or death. Surgery is also frowned upon by the Hmong because in their culture if the human body is cut open or altered in some type of way or form such as having body part removed then this causes a condition known as perpetual imbalance. This Hmong…

Lia’s seizures immediately without testing for any other problems because that would take time away from treating Lia. This is what led to Lia’s brain damage and vegetative state because the doctors missed her septic shock which is what caused her ‘death’. Selvidge says that “if it had been a brand new kid walking off the street, I guarantee you Neil would have done a septic workup and he would have caught it” (Fadiman 256). The doctors had the ability to find and treat what caused Lia’s…

probably when Lia’s placenta was incinerated. In Hmong culture, the placenta is extremely important to the soul. After the baby is born, their placenta is buried under the parents’ bed if it’s a girl and near the base of the house if it’s a boy. After death, the Hmong believe that the soul floats around from a place to another until it finds the place where the placenta is buried. To have the placenta incinerated came as a shock the Lia’s parents who thought that the the soul of Lia, if it can’t…

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down explores the relationship between the Hmong culture and the American culture; in particular the differences in medicine. Medicine has been a difficult subject to understand and master; moreover it becomes almost impossible if the person was raised in an entirely different culture than that of western medicine. This book discusses what it was like from both sides; the Hmong and those of the western doctors what it is like to deal with each other when it…

The roles of gender have long shaped the society as a whole. Commonly, women recognized as dependent, weak and passive. On the other hand, men perceived as independent, strong and dominant. These traits define the roles of gender, but it impacts one culture more than others. The majority of the Hmong populations are people who lived in the hills of Laos. Large groups of Hmong people lived in poverty, had no or little education, and survived on farming. They are independent people who cared most…

Stepheny Saavedra Anthropology 340 Dec. 1, 2016 “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down” is one of the many cases that exemplify the barriers and obstacles people from distinct cultures encounter due to their ethnocentrism and lack of cultural relativism. After escaping to the U.S., a place completely different from what they called home, the Lees had to adapt and place their trust on strangers (to save their daughter) who viewed a condition with spiritual origin to the Hmong as a…

RUNNING HEAD: COUNSELING CONSIDERATIONS Page 4 Social and Cultural Diversity ? Counseling Considerations Thomas J. McCarthy Grand Canyon University: PCN-509 September 7, 2016 Immigrant Culture (Rasmussen, 2011) Recent immigrants are subject to a number of stressors because of leaving some loved ones behind. Therefore, counseling is usually not the first choice for these people. It is family who become their most…