Description
Purpose of Assignment: The purpose of this assignment is to review personal
identification of one’s culture and how it translates to how one should view cultural dynamics as a Human Services professional working with diverse clientele.
Transferrable Skill: Diversity
Instructions: Dr. Rasmussen scheduled your supervision meeting for next Thursday. The email that Dr. Rasmussen provides you is as such:
Good Morning!
Thank you for accepting the email invitation for our second weekly supervision meeting. I want to give you an overview of what we will be discussing this week:
- We will discuss our client population and your experience of working with different cultures. Take time to think about the similarities and differences of cultures that you have interacted with at work, but also in your personal life. What sense have you made of these cultural dynamics that you have observed throughout your life? How does understanding differences and encountering unfamiliar cultures translate to your passion for working within the field of Human Services?
- I would also like to delve into your own cultural identity. Think about the cultural group(s) you identify with. Why is it important for all Human Services Professionals to promote the acceptance of all cultures and the inclusion of all cultures? What steps can this agency take towards ensuring the promotion of acceptance and the inclusion of all cultures so that the work done [as Human Services Professionals] is effective and efficient?
I look forward to conversing with you and having an interactive session. As your supervisor, my role is to serve as a vessel towards assisting you as you move towards becoming the best Human Services Professional possible. In the meantime, if you need me, please feel free to contact me!
Ralph
Directions: Answer the following prompts presented in the email by Dr. Rasmussen (and listed below) as your initiative towards engaging with him before your scheduled supervision next week.
- Take time to think about the similarities and differences of cultures that you have interacted with at work, but also in your personal life.
- What sense have you made of these cultural dynamics that you have observed throughout your life?
- How does understanding differences and encountering unfamiliar cultures translate to your passion for working within the field of Human Services?
- Think about the cultural group(s) you identify with.
- Why is it important for all Human Services Professionals to promote the acceptance of all cultures and the inclusion of all cultures?
- What steps can this agency take towards ensuring the promotion of acceptance and the inclusion of all cultures so that the work done [as Human Services Professionals] is effective and efficient?
Explanation & Answer
View attached explanation and answer. Let me know if you have any questions.
CULTURAL IDENTITY
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Cultural Identity
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CULTURAL IDENTITY
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Multiculturalism
Similarities and differences of cultures
As a professional high school teacher, there is a sense in which I have interacted with
people from diverse cultural backgrounds with cultural beliefs and values that are similar and
different in very many aspects (Soodmand Afshar & Yousefi, 2019). Specifically, I teach in
Kenya, a multicultural country that constitutes over fifty ethnic groups. From my experience,
there is a sense in Kenya is a great country in prospect but is adversely affected by negative
ethnicity that has become rampant in the country across all sectors, including the education
sector which I’m part of (Soodmand Afshar & Yousefi, 2019). There is a sense in which the
cultures are different in several aspects as opposed to the similarities that exist among the diverse
ethnicities within the country. From my experience, various cultures are different in several
aspects like power, achievement tradition, conformity, self-direction, etc. (Soodmand Afshar &
Yousefi, 2019). In the context of power, most cultures confer more power to men and they are
deemed more powerful right away from the family level up to the national leadership.
If it were not the western education that ha...
