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NRN 101 - Ch 3
Fundamentals of Nursing
Question | Answer |
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Cultural Assimilation | When minorities live within a dominant group, many of their members lose the cultural characteristics that once made them different |
Cultural Blindness | When one ignores differences and proceeds as tho they do not exist |
Cultural Diversity | People of varying racial classification and national origin, religous affiliation, language, physical size, gender, sexual orientation, age disability, socioeconomic status, occupational status and geographic location |
Cultural Imposition | Belief that everyone should conform to the majority belief system |
Culture | Shared system of beliefs, values, and hebahioral expectations that provide social structure for daily living |
Culture Conflict | Occurs when people become aware of cultural differences, feel threatedned and respond by ridiculing the beliefs and traditions of others to make themselves feel more secure about their own values |
Culture Shock | Feelings a person experiences when they are placed in a different culture that the person percieves as strange which may result in spychological discomfort or disturbances |
Ethnicity | Sense of identification with a collective cultural group largely based on the groups common heritage. |
Ethnocentrism | Belief that one's own ideas, beliefs, and practices are the best, superior and most preferred of those of others |
Personal Space | Area around a person regarded as part of the person |
Race | Categories based on specific physical characteristics such as skin pigmentation, body stature, facial features and hair texture |
Stereotyping | When one assumes all members of a culture or ethnic group act alike. |