Cultural Definitions
Define Culture
What is the everyday experiences, people, events, smells, sounds, and habits of behavior that characterize lives.
The most practiced religion in the world
What is Christianity
African Americans view what as highly significant and important in their culture
What is spiritual, religious, and social relationships. What is an affiliation orientation.
______ Practices Fasting (Ramadan), no alcohol, no eating pork
Explain Valuing Diversity
What is accepting and respecting differences, different cultural backgrounds, different customs, different ways of communicating, different values, and different traditions.
Define Intercultural Competence
What is a combination of skills, knowledge, and attitudes needed to engage successfully across differences. What is required to get along at an interpersonal level with those who may not seem like us.
The "Big Five"
What is Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism
_____ Must keep meat and dairy separate
Explain Being Culturally Self-Aware
what is the sum total of an individuals experiences, knowledge, skills, beliefs, values, and interests that shapes their sense of who they are and where they fit in with their family, school, community and society.
Define Cultural Reciprocity
What is a willingness to consider the assumptions that culturally diverse individuals and families have
5 major rituals in Buddhism
What is Meditation, Mantras, Mudras, Prayer Wheels, and Pilgrimage. What is mental concentration and mindfulness, sacred sounds, symbolic hand gestures, reciting mantras with the turn of a wheel, and visiting sacred sites.
Latin Culture values the notions of ______ and _______
What is simpatia and respeto. What is positive social relationships and respect for interpersonal relationships
What is Roman Catholic
Explain the dynamics of Difference
What is knowing what can go wrong in cross-cultural communication and how to respond to these situations.
Define Culturally responsive teaching
What is using the cultural knowledge, prior experiences, and performance styles of diverse students to make learning more appropriate and effective for them. What is teaching to and through students strengths.
5 practices of Hinduism
What is puja - prayers to dieties, meditation, silent prayers, yoga, and recitation of scriptures
African Americans communicate using this style
Ebonics
Prefer to be vegetarians and refrain from meat and fish
What is Buddhist
Explain Knowledge of Culture
What is having base knowledge of various cultures so that individual behaviors can be understood in their proper cultural context.
Define Cultural informant
What is members of an indigenous culture who can provide considerable insight into aspects of the culture that may be unfamiliar to outsiders.
The 5 pillars of Islam
The significance of "POW WOW's"
Must follow a vegetarian diet. Most foods are forbidden but dairy is allowed.
What is Hinduism
The importance of Institutionalizing Cultural knowledge and Diversity
What is having the knowledge of other cultures so that we can gain the skillset needed to adapt to diversity and better serve diverse populations