Another goal of mine is to be able to practice cultural humility, a term I learned in a multiculturalism course in my undergrad. I plan to work with as many populations as I can throughout my career. I have my biases and generalizations of people and I want to be able to address them in a diverse classroom environment before going into the work field.
I am most interested in working with and learning about Children, Youth and Women during my advanced year of study. Specifically with adolescents because of my plans to work in the CSEC field. The average ages of entry for females, males and transgender youth is from 14 to 17 years old (Brantley, 2016). I would like to be an advocate for this population because, generally, the voices of adolescents are not often heard and they are a vulnerable group, even more so when they are victims of CSEC and the victim blaming that comes along with it.
I am a first generation Mexican-American student coming from a low socioeconomic background. I have been fortunate enough to have experiences with people from cultures different from myself while at internship and at university. At Alhambra Unified School District, a majority of their students are of Asian background so I have gotten
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In the school setting, in order to restrain a student, that person needs to have gone to a training in order to be certified, which I knew both principal and teacher were not. I was unsure if it was something I should speak to my supervisor about but the certification protects both the student and school if someone were to get injured during the restraint. I spoke with my supervisor who stated she would speak to her own about the situation. I did not want to get anyone in trouble but I knew this safety precaution was placed for a reason. Now if this client has to be restrained again, someone who is certified will do it
The Manhattan project and the CERN project are both a part of Big Science. According to Bowles, and Kaplan (2012) “the Manhattan project was discharged by the United States during World War II to develop the atomic bomb, while CERN was to aid the association between all scientists to create laboratory skills to fund fragment machines for giving charged particles high velocity used in high-energy physics research and used by researchers from around the world, to use the facilities and share ideas”. CERN has failed to catch the attention and support of the American public at first. Unlike CERN “the Manhattan project was considered by the public to be the beginning of Big Science and had elements that had to be characteristic of
Canada is a place known to be a multiculturalism country to many. Although it is meant to be a positive thing in many minds, it is also tended to be a negative thing. This is shown in the essays “No Place Like Home” by Neil Bissondath, and “Immigrants, Multiculralism, and Canadian citizenship” by Will Kymlicka. Both essay make powerful points to why multiculturalism is negative, but also shows the method that the authors use to write such as racism, how both author’s use the pathos and logos method, but also false premises.
I believe that the perspective I have to offer this medical school is unique. From my Black uncles to my Arab aunts, I feel lucky to be able to call so many cultures my own. Furthermore, my experiences during college have been vital to my understanding of diversity. Veterans, the LGBTQ community, the disabled, and variation across the spectrum of political opinion or in body shape are but a sample of the diversity that I have witnessed. Diversity goes beyond race or religion and this has been made evident to me during my undergraduate career. Thus, I wish to bring my culturally competent outlook to the student body and look forward to gaining from the viewpoints of my peers as well. Exposure to a wide breadth of the human experience has helped
Below, I will discuss the results of a multicultural self-assessment that I took. I will describe a time in which I felt “other”. I will then proceed to explain my personal feelings regarding each. I will discuss a course of action I plan to take as a result of the multicultural assessment. I will develop a counseling identity statement. Finally, I will explain why multicultural awareness and cultural competency are important in the field of counseling.
Jaime is an 18-year-old Mexican American who lives with his mother and sister and has a baby with his current fiancée. He also attends a large urban high school. Within high school, Jaime encounters the challenges of being an immigrant and having a bicultural identity, develops resilience, understands the influences of his mother’s parenting style, and further develops his identity. He is nearing the end of his adolescence and beginning to show traits of an emerging adult.
Dr. John B. Ervin not only served as a pioneer during his historic years at Washington University but also served his community through encouraging engagement and diverse interactions. During my time in Highschool, I have strived to do the same by supporting inclusion and diversity through the clubs, sports, and organizations that I take part in. Acting as a leader in clubs such as Gay-Straight Alliance and Students Promoting Justice and Equality has allowed me to support cooperation within different ethnicities, religions, and sexual preferences, while being captain of the Northville Highschool Figure Skating Club has allowed me to ensure representation and inclusion for all students. Since serving on the board of Students Promoting Justice and Equality, I have been involved in promoting understanding between a diverse group of students. Like John B. Ervin, I believe that in order to have unity and understanding, one must sit down with others to discuss divisions and conflicts surrounding their community.
The concept of globalization, which is the increasing integration and interdependence of different countries from one another in terms of economic, communication, and technological aspects, leads one to address the concept of cultural diversity or multiculturalism. Cultural diversity in the health-care system touches lives of many Americans in one way or another. No matter what our own cultural background is, when we go receive medical care, we may encounter a care giver who comes from a different cultural background than ours(Naylor 1997,291).. In the concept of cultural diversity, it can be recognized that two terms are equally important. The first concept is culture, which refers to the total way of life of individuals, and the unique
Personal Statement on Sexuality and Diversity The identities that I have that are defined as norms have some doors for me such as being of the middle class, being slim and fit, being Christian, and being highly literate. These norms have allowed me to work in certain places, work towards my degree and do things that I may have otherwise not been able to do if I did not identify the way I do. The identities such as being African American, female, and being a single parent have made my life harder in some ways. I am judged before people even get to know me because of these attributes.
Multiculturalism Explained In One Word: HAPA by Kristen Lee was a radio broadcast for Kristen Lee since she was leaving NPR’s intern program. The gift for her time was a segment where she could talk about anything that she wanted on the broadcast. Kristen’s broadcast followed the idea that people should not define who you are by your culture and ethnicity. Ms. Lee explains how she looks is not who she is, “ I’m a quarter Chinese and the rest is Swedish. From my appearance, people assume I am Asian, but how could a quarter measurement define who I am? “ (Lee 41). This evidence highlights that people stereotype her on how she looks, but that is not who she is as a person. She soon emphasizes how she personally benefited from being stereotyped,
In sixteen years of life, I have received an opportunity to experience different cultures, learning styles, and languages. To start of, I am an American since I was born here, but the reality is that I was raised in India. My parents’ main motivation for moving back to India was because they wanted us to embrace our traditions, and most importantly, value our family relationships. We relocated back to the US at the start of 9th grade. This transition was a huge factor for transforming me as a person. I am cognizant of the two systems, cherish both, and realize that these multicultural experiences have encouraged me to grow and mature beyond my years. Relocating from a place is not as easy as one can imagine. When compared to the US, India
Developing full multicultural competence appears to be a journey and not a destination. Through this course I have realized that as I continue to become more mindful of my own multicultural awareness that it is simultaneously implementing a cultural lens into my profession. With this expansion of consciousness it dawns on me that there are many areas that would befit me to continue to grow in, both personally and professionally. This course has assisted me to open my views of what multicultural diverse means and the complexity of implementing cultural awareness and understanding.
If the quote above is to be believed, then the strength of a classroom resides in the differences rather than the similarities of its students. In my Pedagogy course (PEDG 5367) concerning diversity and multi-culturalism, I was able to realize first-hand how diverse a classroom of learners can be. I was instructed to create a unit plan (see Appendix A- Manners Across Cultures Unit Plan) that comprised approximately five hours of instruction time. In the unit plan I had to reflect on diverse learners and include instruction which met the needs of several different populations of students including special
Since I started this class, I have a learned a great deal about cultural diversity in the classroom and abroad. My perspective has changed slightly but my knowledge of this subject has improved. In my family, my father taught me about the civil rights movement and the evils of segregation in the U.S. My parents taught me to be tolerant of all humans, no matter what they look like, how they dress, or their sexual orientation. My family has always been liberal thinkers who taught me the dark history of racism and bigotry in this country. As an educator I would be accepting to all race, creeds, and religious peoples.
Despite the all evidences that politics is allowing all kind of cultural diversity to grow within same territory. Those countries which have different cultures are trying to make their state a multicultural state in order to live with peace, for growth and development. This paper discusses about the past present and future of multiculturalism. Cultural diversity from very beginning was existing in different nation There are Jews in Germany, Poles in Ireland, Asians in Canada and so on but the level at which Multiculturalism have reached today became a political issue for those countries which have cultural diversities. People of different cultural diversity are enjoying the same rights and people are practicing different cultures as and extended form of their liberty. People have the freedom to do whatever they want but with in the framework of laws.So the people are exercising the libety of practicing their own culture.There is a discussion about remarkable history of multiculturalism, present position of multiculturalism and the future of multiculturalism. There is advancement is polity for a better sustainment of a country with diversity in culture of people. This popular master narrative is too quick to herald the death of multiculturalism, and mischaracterizes the nature of the experiments undertaken, exaggerates the extent to which they have been abandoned, and misidentifies not only the limitations encountered but also the options for addressing these
What does Diversity and Multiculturalism mean to me? I believe that diversity has become so much more than just the basic qualities of race or gender. It now includes all qualities that make everyone unique, as individuals or as part of a larger group. It is also the acceptance, respect, and understanding of these unique qualities that makes diversity work in a given society. Multiculturalism is the system that is centered around the respect for and the promotion of ethnic and or gender diversity in the society. Multiculturalism is the status of several different ethnic, racial, religious or cultural groups co-existing in the same society. Today, in the U.S. we already