transcultural midterm
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- cultural awareness
- appreciation of external signs of diversity such as art, music, dress and physical characteristics.
- primary characteristics
- things that a person cannot easily change without a stigma for themselves, their family and their society.
- secondary characteristics
- statuses such as education, socioeconomic, occupation, military experience, political beliefs
- acculturate
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give up most traits of own culture and fully adopt new culture.
- assimilate
- adopting some of new culture while keeping some of old culture.
- multicultural
- view that no common moral principles are shared by all cultures
- Cultural relativism
- view that the behaviors and practices of poeple shoul only be judged from the context of their culture.
- culture
- totality of socially transmitted behavioral patterns such as art etc.
- black english
- a term for the type of english that black people speak
- guan xi
- a chinese term that expresses that relatives are supposed to help each other through connections
- dao
- chinese term for balance
- pakiramdam
- filipino term for shared inner feelings with another person
- hilot
- filipino healer and message therapist
- bahala na
- filipino term for it is up to god
- cultural competence
- the ability to interact effectively with poeple from another culture
- universal ethics
- ethics can be formulated in terms of universal principles.
- custom
- accepted or habitual practice
- sociocultural
- relating to both social and cultural matters
- enculturation
- the adoption of the surrounding culture
- ethnic disparity
- change in quality of care due to ethnic background
- title VI of Civil rights act
- hospitals must offer care to all races and ethnic group or federal funding will be pulled.
- global society
- collective society of the whole world
- community
- group of poeple who have common interests or identity and goes beyond physical environment
- family
- two or more people who are emotionally connected
- heath
- a state of wellness as defined by their culture.
- magico religious
- hralth care practices that are common for the culture but differ from western modern medicine.
- kapwa
- shared identity