PMDB25H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Traditional Asian Medicine, Preventive Healthcare, Culture Of Asia
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Culture is a pattern of many concepts, beliefs, values, habits, skills, instruments, and art of a given group of people in a given period. Multicultural communication is the ability to communicate effectively with individuals of other cultures while recognizing ones own person cultural biases and prejudices and putting them aside. Three important actions to promote multicultural communication are: to become knowledgeable about the belief and values of different cultures, to develop techniques that build and foster multicultural communication, to recognize barriers to multicultural communication. 8 barriers to therapeutic transcultural communication: lack of knowledge, fear & distrust, racism. Race includes any of the major biological division of mankind, distinguished by color and texture of hair, color of skin, and eyes, stature bodily proportions. The elimination of racism in an individual begins with knowledge and the examination of conscious and unconscious attitudes regarding race and culture. The next step is a commitment to change these attitudes: prejudice, bias & ethnocentrism.
