Interpersonal relationships are crucial in Indigenous cultures. Teachers need to establish close relationships with Indigenous students and parents in order to build the trust needed for engagement and respect (Perso & Hayward, 2015). When communicating with Indigenous students and parents, I should listen and respond to their answers from their hearts, showing my willingness to get to know my students and respectfulness for the Indigenous culture. There are…
Indonesia is part of Southern Asia culture cluster which holds values in strong family connections and a deep concern for their communities. (West,2016) Provided is a picture that shows the overall cluster’s societal practices and values. “For the overall cluster’s societal practices are high on group collectivism (5.87), power distance (5.39), and humane orientation (4.72) and low on gender egalitarianism (3.28). The other cultural dimensions are rated in the mid-range, around an average of 4.…
attitudes and behaviors, as well as the policies shaped by them, within a specific situation or workplace that enables professionals to be able to effectively work together in a cross-cultural environment. By taking into consideration the different cultures in a setting, cultural competence allows for the culturally appropriate implementation of specific policies, practices, and procedures in order to increase the quality of service that is provided. In order to achieve such a favorable outcome,…
culturally responsive teaching. Throughout my studies at the University of Georgia I developed a passion for diverse and multicultural learners. My place of employment has been known as a melting pot for learners that have represented a multitude of cultures. I have worked with minority students living in poverty daily, and I found that my recent studies regarding multicultural education and culturally responsive pedagogy has been the overarching theme of my studies that has directly impacted my…
Indian and New Zealand culture. Aspects such as power distance, individualism versus collectivism and indulgence versus restraint will all be explored and interpreted from my own experience before finally concluding the reflection of this traumatic misjudgement. Part A Last summer, I encountered a series of miscommunications when I worked…
Cultural relativity states that the beliefs and activities of a culture cannot be judged out of context. To ground her scientific comparison of cultures, Benedict began with cultural relativity to build up an understanding of cultural differences (Young 2005:3). These isolated worlds adhered to their own code of conduct, and to understand their cultures required an…
Governments should require new citizens to assimilate into the native culture. Assimilation improves citizens’ wellbeing, increases social mobility, and increases the diversity of a society, because assimilated peoples are not forced to disregard their old culture, but rather to learn to understand and accept the culture of their new country. By requiring new citizens to adopt the host country’s cultural customs and beliefs, increases the unity of the nation while reducing tensions between…
Culture: Many different cultures around the world is mixed while others are not. For thousands of years, culture always has been the key to connect communities and individuals. Teaching behaviors and values are shared between the members of those certain communities. So it is the link between the individuals, societies, communities and groups. Culture is learning of behaviors which we have growing up with it, and soaked up, to give us the directions in terms of how we feel about things, how we…
Ans: - In the era of globalization, workforce diversity is important. Work force diversity is basically the study of different variety of people working in a workplace. It relies on age, religion, culture, gender, status, education and many more. Any company who want’s to gain competitive advantage in global economy; workforce diversity is the valuable asset which one can use. Every country has different advantages and disadvantages of workforce diversity.…
comes from an assessment of time which shows that monochromic cultures have a linear time while polychromic cultures are doing many things at once, therefore, the time is spend doing many things at once. Canada happens to be a monochromic culture because they tend to focus on their work, follow a specific timeline, and get things done even if it means having a short term success. India, on the other hand, is a more polychromic culture because they like to do multiple things at once, are…