Reflection On Microcultures

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This course has made me aware of my surrounding it has helped me explore and learn the microcultures that I belong to. In addition it has made be aware of harms that discrimination and -isms cause in this world when it comes to sex, age, homosexuality, and economical status. Learning all this has made me aware of my actions regarding some of the microcultures. I also learned a lot of cultures that differ from mine. I will be more sensitive and understanding to other people’s cultures and beliefs when it comes to their care. In this paper I will discuss some of my values, my –ism, and give a brief explanation of cultural competency. My values included autonomy, responsibility, mindfulness, respect, and purpose. The values …show more content…

Being respectful is the most important value in making me a cultural sensitive professional. Being able to respect rituals from other cultures, will assure a positive outcome for the individual involved. Respecting an unknown culture will be the most cultural sensitive action in any case and with any culture. Having the value of purpose will also help me in providing care to any culture, having purpose means to have meaning to exist, so I will be able to respect the purpose of the cultural beliefs that any individual has. I have been working with different races in my career, and I understand the difference between each of their beliefs now a little more than before. I once had was in lent with her catholic beliefs. She had sacrificed breakfast during lent, because she believed in fasting, she was diabetic and was having trouble with her blood sugars dropping. I had to respect the religious ritual she was following during lent, and change the time of her diabetic medication so that way she was not dropping her blood sugars. I was respectful and did not judge or ridicule her belief, even though I felt like it was silly that she was not having breakfast. The changed

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