Cultural competence

practices peace. Since people are not knowledgeable about different cultures it creates a world of hatred. Before all of the hatred started happening, you were supposed to express your culture and share the differences, now people get judged for having cultural differences making it hard to stick to your…

practices of a particular group. Puerto Rico is a beautiful country with rich cultural diversity. Although, Puerto Rico is the smallest of the Greater Antilles. Puerto Rico is made up of the Main Island surrounding smaller islands. Being a multicultural society, Puerto Rico’s main influences are from the Taino Indians, Spain and Africa. In this essay, I will discuss Puerto Rico’s characteristics that develop its own unique cultural identity. Firstly, there are many historical elements that make…

Hong Kong, but it also created various negative impacts on the local community at the same time. The impacts are can be classified into three aspects, they are economy, social, cultural and environmental concerns. These issues negatively affect the livelihood of Hong Kong residents. Inappropriate behavior Due to cultural difference, there are many conflicts happened between local residents and individual visitors. Individual visitors may do something in which not welcomed by the local residents…

Tourism in India is economically important and growing rapidly. Tamilnadu, Uttarpradesh and Maharashtra are the top most tourism places in India. Delhi, Agra, Mumbai, Chennai and Jaipur are often visited by foreign tourists. The ministry of tourism designs national policies for the development and promotion of tourism. Quality in the travel and tourism sector is pretty much essential. Providing security and minimising crime is very important. The Ministry of tourism has already designs national…

4. A proletarian revolution Mao’s Cultural Revolution is less commonly referred to in full as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Proletarian revolution is defined as a social revolution in which the working class overthrows the bourgeoisie and upper class. The ideas behind a proletarian revolution aimed to preserve true Communist ideologies of China by getting rid of the capitalist and traditional elements in society, moreover its goals aimed to re-impose Maoist thought as the dominant…

to Rachels “The Challenge of Cultural Relativism” Different cultures have different conceptions of right and wrong. The Eskimos, for instance, commit infanticide often, leaving their babies to die in the snow. Although we uphold the same value of caring for our offspring, an Eskimo family may be unable to care for their child and select death as their final option. In our culture this is viewed as horrific, but to the Eskimos, it is a part of life (Rachels 35). Cultural relativism says that to…

Kultvetbas Ht15 The definition of culture has long been a source of debate among anthropologists and cross-cultural psychologists ( Jahoda, 1984; Rohner 1984; Segall, 1984); a classic 1952 publication identified over 160 definitions of culture (Kroeber & Kluckhohn, 1952). Although there is variation in the definitions of culture, many point to the shared nature of culture, its ability to impart adaptive (or once adaptive) knowledge, and its transmission across time and generation (Triandis,…

In a world where we witness many tragedies and many achievements there are lingering questions on why we make certain actions and not others. There must be a way to find the source of our morals because we seem to make similar actions through time. Many of the attempts to name what the source of our morality are rejected due to dilemmas and challenged premises, but strongest among them all is Moral Relativism. The argument for Moral Relativism is the strongest argument for discovering what…

“But when it comes to human beings, the only type of cause that matters is final cause, the purpose. What a person had in mind. Once you understand what people really want, you can't hate them anymore. You can fear them, but you can't hate them, because you can always find the same desires in your own heart” (271). In Orson Scott Card’s, Speaker for the Dead, we are met yet again with Ender Wiggin, on a foreign planet, with foreign people, a new foreign alien species, and one he has carried with…

from the western culture of America to the Inuit culture of Siberia. Cultural Relativism argues that every culture, no matter how different, is entitled to their own beliefs and other cultures do not have the right to take offense to another culture’s beliefs. This means that morals that may seem correct in one culture may be considered morally wrong by another culture. An argument against cultural relativism would be that if Cultural Relativism were considered to be fact societies could not…