Vocabulary
Name that Lens
Cultural
Competency
Word up!
Lenses, Lenses,
everywhere (name 2)
100

Production, distribution and use of good and services

What is Economic?

100

Food

Cultural Lens
100

I don't see color

What is Cultural Blindness?

100

The physical features of the earth and spatial places of places

What is geographic?

100

I'm eating pizza with my sister

What is Cultural and Social?

200

The characteristics, qualities, or beliefs that make a person or group distinct

What is identity?

200

Weather

Geographic Lens

200

Rejects all other races and cultures

What is Cultural Desctructiveness?

200

The ability to understand, communicate with and effectively interact with people from diverse cultures

What is cultural competency?

200

I am a teacher in the inner city

What is Economic and Geographic?

300

Related to the mind or mental processes: how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors influence individuals

What is Psychological?

300

Middle Class

Economic Lens

300
"I'm open and curious to learning about other cultures..."

What is Cultural Sensitivity?

300

Unjust treatment of different categories of people, often based on race, age or gender.

What is discrimination?

300

I am so excited my best friend is getting married!

What are Psychological and Social?

400

A widely held, but oversimplified and generalized belief about a particular group of people

What is a stereotype?

400

Middle Child

Social Lens

400

"I can work with various other cultural groups"

What is Cultural Competency?
400

The ability to understand and share the feelings of another; recognizing and respecting others' experiences and emotions

What is empathy?

400

The Muslim Somali father celebrated Ramadan with his family and his friends in Seattle.

What are Geographic, Social, Cultural?

500

The prolonged cruel or unjust treatment or control of a group, often resulting in social, economic and political disadvantages

What is oppression?

500

Depression

Psychological

500

"I know other cultural groups are out there, but I don't want to work with them"

What is Cultural Incapacity?

500

The interconnected nature of social identities such as race, class, gender

What is intersectional?

500

Name 1 example about yourself from each lens.

Answers will vary.

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