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Acculturation
Adapting to the beliefs, values, and practices of a new cultural setting
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Assimilation
The incorporation of new ideas, objects, and experiences into the framework of one’s thoughts
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Cultural competence
The nurse’s act of adjusting his or her practices to meet the patient’s cultural beliefs, practices, needs, and preferences
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Culture
The total lifestyle of a given people, the social legacy the individual acquires from his or her group, or the environment that is the creation of humankind
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Culture-bound syndromes
Sets of signs and symptoms common in a limited number of cultures but virtually nonexistent in most other cultural groups
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Eastern tradition
- Family is the basis for one’s identity
- Family interdependence and group decision making are the norm
- Body-mind-spirit are seen as a single entity
- There is no sense of separation between a physical illness and a psychological one
- Time is seen as circular and recurring, such as the belief in reincarnation
- One is born to unchangeable fate
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Enculturation
The process in which a culture’s world view, beliefs, values, and practices are transmitted to its members
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Ethnicity
The common heritage and history shared by a specific ethnic group
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Ethnocentrism
The universal tendency of humans to think their way of thinking and behaving is the only correct and natural way
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Ethnopharmacology
A relatively new field of medicine that investigates the genetic and ethnic variations in drug pharmacokinetics
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Indigenous Culture
The people and culture that have inhabited a country for thousands of years
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Minority Status
Economic and social standing in society rather than cultural identity
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Race
A group of humans within the population that share common heritable characteristics such as color of skin, eyes and hair
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Refugee
An immigrant who has left his or her native country to escape intolerable conditions and would have preferred to stay in the original culture
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Somatization
The expression of psychological stress through physical symptoms
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Stereotyping
The assumption that all people in a similar cultural, racial, or ethnic group think and act alike
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Western Tradition
- One’s identity is found in one’s individuality, which inspires the valuing of autonomy, independence, and self-reliance
- Mind and body are seen as two separate entities, so different practitioners treat disorders of the body and the mind
- Disease is considered to have a specific, measurable, and observable cause
- Treatment is aimed at eliminating the cause
- Time is seen as linear, always moving forward and waiting for no one
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Worldview
A system for thinking about how the world works and how people should behave in it and in relationships with one another
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