It is all about me david f. smith 11 9-13
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Personal Examination of Who I am from the view point of Culture
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- 1. IT IS ALL ABOUT ME David F. Smith Spalding University
- 2. CULTURAL COMPETENCY SCORES AS A PUBLIC INTEREST LEADER AREAS OF STRENGTH: • AWARENESS OF SELF • AWARENESS OF OTHERS • HANDS ON APPLICATION OF CULTURAL PRINCIPLES (Rousin, B & Iliff, H. 2011)
- 3. AREAS OF NEEDED IMPROVEMENT • STEREOTYPE: People not understanding who you are • MENTOR : Not Having One = BAD STEREOTYPE MENTOR
- 4. Minimize Cultural Faux Pas Produce a Cultural Portfolio Cooking THE CORE VALUES Cooking Up Strategies for Improvement YOU
- 5. REFERENCES Ellison, M. (n.d). How to express cultural identity. Retrieved from http://www.ehow.com/how_8254163_express-cultural-identity. html Rouson, B. & Iliff, H. (2011). Cultural competency self-assessment for public interest leaders. [Assessment]. Baltimore, MD: Maryland Nonprofits. Retrieved from http://www.marylandnonprofits.org/dnn/Portals/0/Downloads /Public/Maryland%20Nonprofits%20Cultural%20Competency% 20Self%20Assessment.c7398434-c906-42fe- 86c33590d76b5b3e.pdf
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- AWARENESS OF SELF: Is having the understanding of who I am and where I come from. This is also while understanding how this is a constantly changing process. As such it requires effort to maintain this personal information due to the self examination of culture. AWARENESS OF OTHERS : Is having the understanding of others and their individual cultures. This also requires an understanding of how these individual cultures relate to my individual culture so that the other persona feel safe and secure in their interactions with me. HANDS ON APPLICATION OF CULTURAL PRINCIPLES: Is my ability to apply my knowledge of various cultures in a way that conveys effective communication strategies while avoiding misunderstandings and FAUX PAS’s. (Rousin, B & Iliff, H. 2011)
- STEREOTYPE: Is where people really do not understand who I am and where I come from because my cultures are often hidden or portrayed in ways that are not what they seem based upon what they see me doing or hear me saying. People not understanding who I really am and where I come from requires me to open more to the people I work with and who work for me. Mentor: NOT Having one or MORE is a BAD thing. This is someone who can aide in your understanding of who you are working with and for. This person can also assist you in ensuring you are doing what needs to be done, when it needs to be done, and how it needs to done, while avoiding cultural pit falls. This does not just apply to working with individuals from other country’s it can also apply to the cultures in your work place which are often the hardest to maneuver through without making many mistakes. These people are often the hardest to find and are often un-willing to help you when first approached unless required to do so.
- Minimize Cultural Faux Pas: Seek out individuals who are familiar with the cultures you are working with and ask them to help you to better understand how to effectively interact with persons who are not of your culture. Take courses in Black History, Chicano/Chicana Studies, Women's Studies, Asian-American Studies, Native American Studies, sociology, anthropology, and other culture related topics. While in these courses seek out help from other classmates who are not of your culture so that they and/or your professors may acts as mentors for you. Another valuable way of being culturally considerate is to curtail acts that are more than likely to hurt somebody's feelings people from another culture based on their own values and beliefs. Cultural Faux Pas often take place when visiting another country, however they can happen in your own country. Faux Pas should be avoided since having the ability to connect your thoughts and ideas in a way that is easily understood and is also value/belief acceptable to all participants involved will aide you in having a competitive advantage Produce a Cultural Portfolio: This can be done by documenting your own family's cultural history. This can also be achieved by collecting artifacts from your family’s history that allow you to explore the ways you delineate your cultural identity from others and how these are incorporated as part of the world(s) and communities in which you live. You might want to gather: images from pictures or paintings, any newspaper articles, letters, recordings, and first hand interviews with your family members. COOKING: Learn the history of and how to cook the food of your culture then learn how to cook the food of another cultural group, then invite others to partake (be sure to make sure that nothing is burned) (Just Kidding….Well Maybe) (Ellison, M., n.d.) Just REMEMBER “KOOL AID TO THE RESCUE” “OH YEAH”