My Cultural Competence

Cultural competence is a set of congruent behaviors, attitudes, and policies that come together in a system. I feel that cultural competence traits are a part of my everyday life. I was international friends, in which I accept their language and culture. Through-out my life I have gain an understanding on the GLBTQ community, and I have nothing against the action of this community. I have gain in understanding in the daily activities performed within other cultures as well. With the personal reflection I noticed that everything was either strongly agree or agree. Some of the best connect through-out my life have come was international students, which helps me gain more of an understanding of their culture.
I have event took the time to try difference cultural foods, as well listening to their music to understand their culture. I have work with people from a culture that's unfamiliar to me, and it was a great way to enhance my cultural competence. I have even put myself in social situations where I was the only one of your cultural group, to really see how international may feel every day. I have gain knowledge to know that competence with one group

doesn't mean you're competent with another. Cultural competence is important because it helps my ability to engage with families and communities throughout my neighbor as well as anyone else community. I have to keep finding ways to expand my understanding of other people culture.
Cultural competence requires that organizations have a defined set of values and principles, and demonstrate behaviors, attitudes, policies, and structures that enable them to work effectively cross-culturally.

I would like to work as a City Planner in the state of Colorado. On the city website the job description was in full detail and expressed that the city was an equal opportunity employer. I did notice that an additional requirement was a Colorado driver license, which limits it pool base for employees. The city council had no diversity at all, there were only older white council member. This organization doesn’t show any cultural competence skills, even within the city image, there are no pics or African-American or Asians. I couldn’t find anything demonstrating Staff development or the service being

offered.
Their mission statement is to enhancement of our current services, and participation in public, private and regional partnerships. This contradicts with what being shown through-out the website, in which this is the City website. I didn’t notice any cultural competence principles in their strategic planning, policy development, program design, and service delivery process throughout the city. Even with the educational and recreational opportunities for the community, I didn’t see anything any experiences that gave a reflection of all cultural groups. There nothing to motivate me about this city from the website, which has me second guessing my option on moving to Colorado.