EDUC 149 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Ethnocentrism, Cultural Learning, Intercultural Competence
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An exercise for everyone is to examine your values and see how they relate to your goals: cultural learning starts at birth and is mostly nonverbal. Families and the agencies that work with them are in charge on ensuring that each child remains a member of their culture through steady developmental progress toward cultural competence: our culture affects everything we do. How we position our bodies, touch each other, what we regard as mannerly, how we look at the world, how we think, what we see as art, how we set goals. Everyone is in uences by his or her culture: most people are more comfortable meeting up with people of their same culture because they have things in common, unless class differences get in the way, cultural patterns. Values people as unique individuals starting at birth. Emphasis on independence in though and action: have personal power and taught to be assertive.
