Cultural competence

Cultural globalization causes fewer conflicts which helps promote more equality. Many countries suffer from racial and gender biases. The diffusion of values from around the world allows for a more open society. People are exposed to different cultures, which in turn leads to less discrimination. They are more accepting of new ideas and are willing to adapt their beliefs to incorporate these customs. Cultural globalization is the spread of values around the world. The development of our species…

Final Exam Answer #3: Milton Gordon has stated that there are stages of assimilation, and those stages help out minority groups to integrate successfully within society. The study of assimilation has also been studied in conjunction with pluralism, because many people feel that the studies of pluralism and assimilation are similar. Assimilation and pluralism both deal with research that correlates with information pertaining to how various minority groups interact differently and engage…

in the first child’s possession of embodied cultural capital (Bourdieu 1986: 48). Embodied cultural capital is an accumulation of social skills and knowledge that helps a person fail or succeed in the dominating culture (Bourdieu 1986: 48). Children who possess embodied cultural capital thrive in school with invisible knowledge and skills that set them apart as “gifted” while those without these skills will struggle (Bourdieu 1986: 48). Embodied cultural capital is passed on from parents to…

Tiananmen Square Protest 1989 People protest for a reason, there is a problem with something and they want a change, they want to be heard. They can last for a long time, days, months and years until they get what they want. During protest things can get out of hand and people become violent and that’s where everything gets too far. Today protesting isn’t as bad as it was before, we try to result to agreements and there aren’t as many deaths as there were as before. In 1989 Tiananmen Square was…

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comes into play the moral claims are literally just feelings of approval and disapproval. Meaning that if discussion about gay marriage was to come up, and someone says that they approve of it, then they are saying that they approve gay marriage. Cultural Relativism is the moral beliefs of a culture. So, whatever the culture says is a right thing to do they can do. Yes, may be wrong in other cultures, but because they say it is fine in theirs then it is. The same thing goes…

Although in the United States the development of "anthropological" thought had been developed by different authors in the nineteenth century under the perspective called “Social Darwinism”, it is in the early twentieth century when Anthropology emerges as a modern discipline with a theoretical and methodological corpus that allowed its professionalization and inclusion within the university programs of the country. The greatest exponent of anthropology in the United States during the first half…

How does culture become reconfigured for different audiences and how does that reproduce inequality? Who ascribes value to “high” and “low” culture? In order to answer these questions, we must look further into the rise and fall of American culture. Culture is not something tangible that anyone can put under a telescope to examine, it changes all the time. When the problem of culture comes into play in any point of American history it begins with the separation of class. This separation is…

What is Cultural Appropriation? It is hard being a minority in America. The struggle for identity is a common thread amongst minority communities in this country and that issue is constantly exasperated by the white washed media. According to Susan Scafidi, cultural appropriation is “taking intellectual property, traditional knowledge, cultural expressions, or artifacts from someone else's culture without permission.” (Scafidi) I would add that using those artifacts to make a profit is what…

Are all Cultures Just as Valid? “When in Rome, do as the Romans do.” To understand cultural relativism, we must first understand what culture is. The word “culture” originally meant care for growing living things, such as plants. A culture is a set of ideas and ways of acting that is developed by a group of people who interact with each other, and that influences how they live. Cultures are passed down from generation to generation through words, through expressive actions, and through things…