Cultural and Professional Heritage

Living in a culture that is unfamiliar to one’s own can be both overwhelming and a challenging process regardless of what country you are from. The Western traditions, values, and social norms can be quite different than those from back home. Oftentimes, when individuals relocate from their homeland to a new and more developed nation, they carry their own background, life experiences, and traditions with them. For this reason, these factors shape how they perceive and adapt to their new surroundings. To be precise, individuals commonly experience what is known as “cultural shock”, which describes the stress, disorientation, and the feelings of confusion that arise when entering a strange or foreign culture.Therefore staying committed to ancient family traditions can be difficult, which may then turn cultural transition into an ongoing battle for many. In particular, this paper will be analyzing the film, the Split Horn, through a social anthropologist's perspective and with the help of the Holistic model of health, including alternative understanding methods to further examine what certain families go through.

Medical beliefs for Native Americans revolve around healing by spiritualistic means, and through remedies made with items that come from the earth. Most believe in an interconnectedness of everything between man, nature, and God. They hold healing ceremonies with prayer to help with their healing of diseases or ailments. “In some tribes/nations causes of illness were considered to be an "imbalance" between the spiritual, mental, physical, and social interactions of the individual and his family or clan” (Hendrix,

Heritage is who we are, where we come from, it’s our history. Traditionally the word heritage means one back ground or tradition. Each individual’s heritage varies between different cultures and consists of determination of one’s ethnic, religious, and cultural background (Spector, 2009). The heritage assessment tool helps healthcare professionals evaluate someone’s physical, mental, and spiritual beliefs which in turn helps with determining traditional health methods such as health maintenance, health protection, and health restoration. It also helps in opening a pathway for effective communication between the patient and health care provider to understand ones culture, beliefs, as well as their health

Medicine. According to the belief of the Navajo any form illness comes from some type of transgressions against the supernatural. There is certain types of ceremonies that can be performed to treat these types of illness that are caused by the person’s transgressions. Other than ceremonies a lot of times they could use different types of herbs, potions, ointments that a specialist would collect.

Intellectual Heritage 851 incorporated a variety of novels and narratives written throughout different points in time. Some of these texts were familiar, and some I had never seen or heard of. The constant reading and analyzation that came with this course and its readings were intense, but the hard work did not come with a reward. These texts were beneficial because they taught and allowed me to further develop my analyzation skills. These texts aided the growth in my ability to critically analyze readings and comprehend the deeper meanings that are between the lines due to the variety/type of the required readings and the time and effort it took to understand them.

My parents tell us about the fiestas de la plaza and my mom tells us stories about the santuario. Basically they tell us about their lives in Mexico and how they grew up compared to me and my brothers. I think these stories are important to tell because it makes me learned more about my parents when they were younger. Also I get to learn more in how they grew up and what lead them to come to the U.S. Although there’s no stories about these practices, there are certain home remedies that have been passed down from generations for instance, we use Yerba Buena when someone is sick or has abdominal pain. Vapor rub when someone has the common cold, cough or difficultly breathing. Placing aloe Vera on sunburns. Also for coughs taking three spoons of honey with lemon for sore throat. We drink these teas that allows us to cleanse our systems and ease the pain for instance, té de Manzanilla (chamomile tea). Basically my parents would follow traditions that their parents have used and use it on us. I think the reason why these traditions are passed down is because my parents want us to continue using these home remedies they want us to use more natural ingredients instead of depending too much on pharmacological medicines. Also growing up I have heard some ridiculous myths or stories that my mother have said, for instance, she believes if you walk barefoot you might get sick especially when you step into the cold floor. Another believe that my parents think is that if you go outside after taking a shower and its a cold day you might get

The United States has always been an open country with its kindness in welcoming people of other nations into it. The population of the United States is growing notably because of the migration from the rest of the world. This writer lives in Richmond, a city in the state of Virginia, a multicultural city that is heavily populated. The presence of such a population density increases the awareness of health care professionals in their ability to be receptive to other cultures. Heritage or culture is the nonphysical, inherited traits we

India does have major health care hurdles. The biggest issues that affect healthcare in India stem from poverty and sanitation. Multiple complications arise when 638 million people open defecate and 122 million have no access to toilets (Indian Child, 1995). India’s social economic gaps are profound and 85% of healthcare is private sector, which makes it unreachable by the majority of the public (Indian Child, 1995). With a rapidly emerging economy India is trying to catch up to it’s healthcare needs and may be attained with a healthy economy developing. India is assessing their needs and understanding the importance of investing into social fabric. India has some good advantages for tackling healthcare 1. Utilizing models from other nations. 2. Learning to avoid costly mistakes from other countries. 3. Has the financial power to do so. Family A’s current health maintenance, protection and restoration since wife’s pilgrimage at age nine has been greatly influenced by western medicine yet some aspects are still strong within her eastern influence. Such things as preparing Khichdi, this is a lentil and rice soup with cumin, and garmmasala. It is a common comfort food for Indian culture. Dal another comfort food which usually consists of turmeric, cumin, ginger, red chili and red lentils is also prepared by the family during cold season. Family A also goes to temple to learn the

Upon interviewing families from different cultures with the Heritage Assessment Tool, many differences were noted in their interpretations of health maintenance, health restoration and Health protection. For Example…

Culture is a pattern of behavior and values shared by an ethnic group. Cultural heritage is a set of traditions within the culture that is hand down from the older generation to the younger generation within the family. These traditions influence the family’s decisions in relation to their diet, education, daily living activities, religious beliefs and practices and also health and illness beliefs. In this paper, the author will focus on the usefulness of applying a heritage assessment in evaluating the needs of a person as a whole. Three different cultures including authors will be discussed about the health maintenance, health promotion, and health restoration. The author will also evaluate health traditions which

India’s culture blends from it rich historic background and the influence of the current western culture. Hence, as Indians, we have grown up to be a very tolerant culture. We honor and respect all religions, races, and ethnic backgrounds. Our culture teaches us to have a deep respect for elders and has a tradition of joint families.

The “Heritage Assessment Tool” is a guide to help determine cultural, ethnic, and religious heritage. It may be used to assess your own cultural values or the cultural values of other ethno cultural backgrounds. Using this tool will guide the user into making non-stereotyped assumptions about the heritage of a patient. The Heritage Assessment Tool allows the interviewer to gather a deeper understanding of the traditions that make up the health background of certain individuals or groups. Three families including the authors own, will be evaluated for differences in health traditions. Health maintenance, protection and restoration will be addressed as well as, identifying common health traditions based on the authors own cultural

People of the Chinese culture have many different beliefs and practices of medicine and healthcare. It is extremely important for nurses to be culturally competent and to be able to understand different practices and beliefs of different cultures to ensure that they are providing the best care and making their patients as comfortable as possible. According to Shih-Yu Lee, ritual is defined as “a social essential collective activity within a culture,” it is also well recognized that culture and ritual plays a fundamental role in “defining, sensing the health and illness, and searching help for problems” (Shih-Yu, Shu-Ling, and Yu-O, 2013). There are many rituals and beliefs of traditional Chinese medicine that are crucial to understand, the

'Unity in Diversity' has been the distinctive feature of Indian culture. Whatever health traditions people follow, they are very strict on their eating habits. They eat more healthy foods and include more vegetables in the daily servings. Also for maintaining health they spend some time for exercise. For protecting health, people use various methods like rituals for self protection, superstitions, oils or water (Holy water) and specific dietary taboos that must adhered to, for example, after child birth women will have some restrictions on

As such, firsthand approach to Indian tradition is lacking at large, and the idea of tradition being through the media of interpretative tradition has engendered the danger of a distorted view of tradition. The distortion often swings between two extremes – either in viewing tradition as Everything, or as Nothing.