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NCLEX-RN Rev
Cultural Diversity and Health Practices
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| acculturation | Process of learning norms, beliefs, and behavioral expectations of a group other than one's own group |
| Belief | something accepted as true |
| Cultural assimilation | Process in which individuals from a minority group are absorbed by the dominant culture and takp of e on the characteristics of the dominant culture. |
| Cultural competence | The acquisition of knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of a culture that facilitates the provision of culturally appropriate health care |
| Cultural diversity | The differences among groups of people that result from ethnic, racial, and cultural variables. |
| Cultural imposition | The tendency to impose one's own beliefs, values, and patterns of behavior on idividuals from another culture. |
| culture | the dynamic network of knowledge, beliefs, patterns of behavior, ideas, attitudes, values, and norms that are unique to a particular group of people |
| Dominant culture | The group whose values pervail within a society |
| ethnic group | A group of people within a culture who share an identity based on race, religion, color, national origin, or language. |
| Ethnicity | An individual's identification of self as a part of an ethnic group |
| ethnocentrism | An assumption of cultural superiority and an inability to accept the ways of other cultures |
| minority group | An ethnic, cultural, racial, or religious group that constitutes less than a numerical majority of the population |
| race | A grouping of people based on biological similarities. Members of a racial group have similar phys characteristics |
| racism | Discrimination directed toward individuals or groups who are perceived to be inferior due to biological differences; often accompanied by oppression |
| stereotyping | An expectation that all people within the same racial, ethnic, or cultural group act alike and share the same beliefs and attitudes |
| subculture | A group of people with characteristic patterns of behavior that distinguish the group from the larger culture or society |
| values | Principles and standards that have meaning and worth to an individual, family, group, community, or culture. |
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