Cultural Diversity
Shared system of beliefs, values, and behavioral expectations.
What is culture?
The feelings a person experiences when placed in a different culture.
What is culture shock?
Occurs when people become aware of cultural differences, feel threatened, and respond by ridiculing the beliefs and traditions of others to make themselves feel more secure about their own values.
What is culture conflict?
What is faith?
Hebrew Bible is authority, guide, and inspiration for religious beliefs and practices.
What is Judaism?
Large group of people who are members of a larger cultural group
What is subculture?
Sense of identification with a collective cultural group.
What is Ethnicity?
What is cultural imposition.
Denies the existence of God or a higher power.
What is Atheist?
Sickness + sin errors of the mind that can be overcome by altering thoughts, not by using medicines.
What is Christian Scientist?
Usually largest group. Group has the most authority to control values and sanctions of society.
What is dominant group?
This is typically based on specific characteristics.
What is Race?
Occurs when people ignore differences in the cultures in which they live and proceed as if they do not exist.
What is cultural blindness?
Does not deny existence, but believes nothing can be known about God or a higher power.
What is Agnostic?
Oppose "false teachings" by other sects. Opposition extends to modern science and medicine.
What is Jehovah's Witnesses?
Smaller group. A physical or cultural characteristic identifies the people as different from dominant group.
Minority group
Enables nurses to deliver services that are respectful of and responsive to the health beliefs, practices, and cultural and linguistic needs of diverse patients.
What is the concept of cultural respect?
When one assumes that all members of a culture, ethnic group, or race act alike.
What is stereotyping?
Organized system of beliefs about a higher power, spirit, life force, or supreme being.
What is Religion?
World's 4th largest religion, Indian Religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century.
What is Buddhism?
Minorities living within a dominant group lose the characteristics that made them different.
What is cultural assimilation?
What is intersectionality?
When we hold attitudes toward people or associate stereotypes with them without our conscious knowledge.
What is implicit bias?
Anything pertaining to a person's relationship with a nonmaterial life force or higher power.
What is Spirituality?
A monotheistic religion that originated in Arabia in the 7th century CE and is centered on the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad and the Quran.
What is Islam?