Cultural competence

Millenials, Americans born from 1981 to 1997, are being attack for being lazy and entitled, and abandoning the American dream. Millenials this year will eclipse in size the previous Gen X and baby boomer generations and by 2020 will comprise half of the U.S. workforce (Grisales, 2015). There is a ton of research on the millenial generation of about 75.3 million Americans. Millenials are approaching the workplace differently than any other generation, thus giving us a different outlook on the…

Generational diversity within the nursing workforce is a unique situation for health care organizations today. Having three distinct generations working together to provide safe and effective patient care presents many challenges. Each generation possesses their own characteristics, values, beliefs, communication styles, and commitment to team work (American Hospital Association [AHA], 2014). The three generations were influenced by the collective experiences of their generation, both socially…

yourself. And by applying anthropology to your life you can become a more culturally sensitives and capable of deal with real issues and people. In order to understand how we can use some of the technique of anthropologist to make ourselves more cultural sensitive and capable of dealing with real issues and people in this pluralistic world we need to understand specifically what, how and why anthropologist do what they. They aim to understand what it is to be…

What determines an individual 's deservingness to be labeled as a Communist? Is it his or her actions, status, education, mindset, or something entirely different? According to Liu Shaoqi, Chinese Communist Party theoretician and Mao Zedong 's successor as the head of state, it is not a singular aspect of an individual 's life that will make them a true Communist, but a combination of them all. In his 1939 speech, How To Be a Good Communist, Liu outlines the main actions, practices, and…

The UWHL label can also double as an advertisement to increase tourists coming to the islands, since the UWHL promotes the cultural and historical authenticity of the destination and this form of advertisement would easily hook tourists craving for heritage tourism. More jobs in the tourism industry would be created to service the increasing number of tourists, leading to less…

photographing him. Mao swam across the river to prove to his people, in a form of propaganda that at age 72, he was still young, strong, and capable to lead China. He organized a mass movement called the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution or the GPCR. The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution had three aspects, they were to purify the arts, to create a new revolutionary group in china, and to destroy all that the previous leaders had built. The new revolutionary group in China were the Red…

This generation is always being labeled as “lazy”, “obsessed with technology”, and many others. However, many of this generation’s “problems” were inevitable with the current state of our world. It is very hard for this generation to find a stable job due to the supremacy the older generations hold. Contrary to popular belief, the millennial generation actually does want to go to work and make the world a better place. Given an opportunity they will. There are a few things that are holding this…

In order to successfully pursue a career in the field of anthropology, one must possess an open mind and be prepared to dismiss all traces of ethnocentrism. Cultural anthropologists attempt to understand different cultures through the utilization of ethnography which enables anthropologists to obtain qualitative research through mechanisms such as participation and observation where they not only observe and record individuals of different cultures but may even participate in their ongoing…

Anthropology by definition is the study of human societies, the cultures that they create and the development that is caused by the evolution of those societies. Thus it should be important for anthropologists to study the many development projects that are proposed by organizations around the world. The concept of development projects first began after World War II as the West began trying to piece Europe back together. After the Marshal Plan was signed in 1948 the United States then turned to…

There is a generation that is 80 million strong and who are pioneering the start of a new millennium. The people of this generation are called the Millennials. The advances in new technologies and ways of growing up has set this group apart from all generations before them. Many think of them as entitled, lazy and narcissistic. Yet, the true identities of this group are just starting to be revealed. They are the most diverse and open minded generation. They show a lot of potential and could…