Week 2
The dynamic exchange of values and perspectives between different cultures, promoting understanding, respect, and harmonious coexistence.
Interculturality
A concept where people focus on similarities, valuing the recognition of others within a shared cultural identity, often tied to a specific place or ancestry.
Indigeneity
An approach in healthcare that looks at how social, historical, and power imbalances affect health experiences.
Cultural Safety
The ability to guide, influence, or inspire a group towards achieving a common goal, often involving qualities like decision-making, empathy, and vision.
Leadership
Name the model that provides a framework for communication strategies that can increase effectiveness in intercultural contexts.
SCORE model
A mindset where one's own cultural group is considered superior, leading to a biased perspective and a lack of understanding or appreciation for other cultures.
Ethnocentric Mindset
What term describes a practice that specifically recognizes and respects the historical and ongoing connection of Indigenous peoples to a particular geographic area?
Land/Territorial Acknowledgement
An approach that involves ongoing self-reflection and a willingness to learn from individuals of diverse cultures.
Cultural Humility
Name two common models for dimensional approaches to culture.
Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions and Trompenaars’ Cultural Dimensions
What term describes the blending or mixing of different cultural elements, creating a combination that goes beyond traditional categories and embraces diversity?
Cultural Hybridity
People with this mindset focus on similarities, valuing the recognition of others as part of our shared humanity.
Minimization
Name the forms of Territorial Acknowledgment.
Standard, Reflective, Transformative.
What are the 4 barriers to knowing a person as mentioned by Brooks?
What term describes the extent to which less powerful members of organizations or societies accept that power is distributed unequally?
Power Distance
The model introduced by Wasilewski, Berardo & Deardorff, offers an alternative perspective for comprehending decisions related to cultural hybridity.
The Multicultural Compass Model
What mindset is characterized by a lack of awareness of cultural differences, focusing solely on one's own culture?
Denial
Name any 3 traditional territories of Surrey.
Semiahmoo, Katzie, Kwikwetlem, Kwantlen, Qayqayt and Tsawwassen. (Any 3)
The belief that we see the world exactly as it is, ignoring how our culture or background might affect our view compared to others.
Naïve Realism
Name any three elements of Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions Model.
Power Distance
Individualism
Masculinity
Uncertainty Avoidance
Long-term orientation (Any 3)
A belief that everyone in a culture is the same and has fixed cultural characteristics, without understanding that each person is different.
Cultural Essentialism
A mindset that shows increased awareness of cultural differences, where individuals evaluate distinctions based on their own cultural perspective.
Polarization
Name the story that was narrated by Christina about Indegenious Language and what language was it?
Stolen Words – Cree
The idea that certain groups have inherent, unchanging traits that define them, overlooking individual variation and cultural diversity.
Essentialism
What is the limitation of Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions Model?
This model is derived from surveys of IBM employees only, with varying response rates: high in some countries (about 1000 respondents) and low in others (30-50). (McSweeney, 2002)
Name the 4 major heads of the Multicultural Compass Model.
Creating
Converting
Destructing
Maintaining