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Developing Cultural Humility offers a unique look into the journeys of psychologists striving towards an integration of multiculturalism in their personal and professional lives. Contributing authors—representing a mix of “cultural backgrounds” but stereotypically identified as “White”—engage in thoughtful dialogue with psychologists from underrepresented communities who are identified as established and respected individuals within the multicultural field. The contributing authors discuss both the challenges and rewards they experienced in their own journeys and how they continue to engage in the process of staying connected to their cultural identity and to being culturally responsive. In addition, psychologists who represent historically disenfranchised communities have similarly reflected on their own journey, while offering commentary to the personal stories of White psychologists.
Video available! Learn more about the “Understanding How to Engage in Difficult Dialogues” video and generating more authentic and genuine multicultural dialogues.
Developing Cultural Humility is useful for stimulating discussions about privilege, power, and the impact race has on either bringing people together or creating more distance, whether intentionally or unintentionally. It demonstrates to readers how to engage in the process of examining one's own “culture” in more intentional ways, and discusses the implications as we move towards engaging in more dialogue around multicultural issues.
Relishing the Diversity within and without: A Journey with Many Influences
Relishing the Diversity within and without: A Journey with Many Influences
Personal Definition of Culture/Multiculturalism
Many authors have provided definitions of culture and multiculturalism, and following are two definitions of culture that I find appealing and useful:
A set of meanings, behaviors, norms, and values used by members of a particular society, as they construct their unique view of the world. (Alarcon, Foulks, & Vakkur, 1998, p. 6)
A dynamic system of rules, explicit and implicit, established by groups in order to ensure their survival, involving attitudes, values, beliefs, norms, and behaviors, shared by a group but harbored differently by each specific unit within the group, communicated across generations, relatively stable but with potential to ...
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