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Culture Influences
Ch. 4 Cultural Influences on Nursing Care
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Acculturation | assimilation to a different culture, typically the dominant one. |
| Belief | concepts that a person holds to be true. |
| Cultural | relating to the ideas, customs, and social behavior of a society. |
| Cultural Assimilation | occurs when a new member takes on the dominant culture's values, beliefs, and practices, sometimes at the cost of losing some of his or her cultural heritage. |
| Cultural Awareness | being aware of history and ancestry and having an appreciation of and attention to the crafts, arts, music, foods, and clothing of various cultures. |
| Cultural Competence | having an awareness of one's own culture and not letting it have an undue influence over another person's culture. |
| Cultural Conflict | when one's own culture conflicts with a new culture. |
| Cultural Diversity | representing two or more cultures; the differences among cultures. |
| Cultural Sensitivity | being aware of and sensitive to cultural differences. Avoiding behavior or language that may be offensive to another person's cultural beliefs. |
| Cultural Shock | when values, beliefs, and practices sanctioned by the new culture |
| Culture | the socially transmitted behavior patterns, beliefs, values, customs, arts and all other characteristics of people that guide their worldview. |
| Customs | the usual ways of acting in a given circumstance or something that an individual or group does out of habit. |
| Ethnic | pertaining to a religious, racial, national, or cultural group. |
| Ethnocentrism | the tendency to think that one's own ways of thinking, believing, and acting are the only right ways. |
| Practice | performing an action repeatedly. |
| Spiritual | relating to or affecting the human spirit or soul as opposed to material or physical things. |
| Spirituality | the essence of being; it gives meaning and purpose to our existence. |
| Stereotype | a opinion or belief about a group of people that is ascribed to an individual. |
| Traditions | practices and customs handed down through the generations, often by word of mouth. |
| Values | ideals or concepts that give meaning to an individual's life. |
| Worldview | the way individuals look on the world to form values and beliefs about life and the world around them. |
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Jessica Venyke
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