Cultural Competence
Examine Your Barriers to Cultural Competence
- Respond to the prompts below in full sentences. Be sure to use standard English grammar and spelling:
- Assess your own barriers to cultural competence.
- Have you overcome these? If not, how do you plan to overcome them?
- If you do not have barriers, why do you think you do not have them?
Answer preview
I have taken several steps and aspire to do more to address these barriers. I am now more deliberate about listening to the rationale behind people’s actions, norms, and traditions before making conclusions. Keeping an open mind has made it much easier for me to interact with and accommodate different people peacefully. I am now talking to more people from different cultures, most of who I would have otherwise ignored and assumed we have nothing in common. Additionally, I have tried to come out of my cultural cocoon to look at different issues from the cultures of the people involved, and this has positively affected my actions and attitudes towards them.
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Cultural Competence
