To begin this week’s assignment, download the Cultural Self-Inventory from this week’s resources and answer all the questions to complete your own cultural self-inventory.
Then, prepare a written response to the following:
Document your strengths in cultural competencies.
Explain any specific stereotypes, prejudices, or biases you identified.
Utilize the area of social work practice that you are passionate about (identified in MSW-5001) to complete a Culturagram on that population. Discuss the issues of culture on the population you have chosen. Utilizing your answers to the cultural self-assessment, explain what you would have to do to become culturally competent in working with them. Include your culturagram within your Word document.
Support your assignment with at least three scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including seminal articles, may be included.
Length: 3-4 pages, not including title and reference pages. Submit your self-inventory with your assignment.
Your assignment should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course by providing new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards. Be sure to adhere to Northcentral University’s Academic Integrity Policy.
Upload your document, and then click the Submit to Dropbox button.
What are your ethnic identities? Caucasian
Of which other cultural groups are you a member? NA
Which cultural memberships are most influential in the way you define yourself? American
What characteristics or behaviors do you display that indicate the influences of these cultural identities? Freedom, working class
What values are associated with these cultural memberships? Right to bare arms, freedom of religion,
Do you feel positively or negatively about these identities? positive
Have you ever experienced discrimination based on your cultural memberships? In todays society? Yes
What privileges do your cultural memberships afford you? The same privileges as other Americans. Freedom, right to religion, right to bare arms, freedom to work, better education.
Spiritual Beliefs
What are your spiritual beliefs? Free Will Baptist
What led you to these beliefs? Bible
How important are spiritual beliefs in your daily life? very
How do these beliefs influence the way you perceive others who hold different beliefs? Everyone has the right to own belief, I treat no one any different.
Knowledge of Others
What other cultural groups are present in your community? African American, Chinese, Laotian, Mexican, Guy and Lesbians.
What do you know about the beliefs, values, and customs of members of these other cultural groups? everyone has their own beliefs that are handed down trough out generations, the same as mine was. Many believe the same as the elders in the family. Through out society we are all different yet very much the same.
What is the source of this knowledge? My children attend school with different cultural back ground. They come into my home and become close friends.
Have your interactions with people from these cultures reinforced or altered this knowledge base? No, I have never judged someone based on their culture, color or lifestyle.
What stereotypes or prejudices do you hold about other cultural groups? Black lives matter is no better than the KKK.
What is the source of your bias? News
What are you doing to increase your knowledge about people who are culturally different from you? Trying to see things from the point of view that the Black lives matter movement is sanding for.
Cross-Cultural Skills
Are you currently involved in relationships or activities in which you have ongoing interactions with people from other cultures? Yes, I work as a care coordinator where I am involved with many people each day.
What is your comfort level while interacting with people who are culturally different from you? We are all the same. I treat everyone with respect and humanism.
Are you able to talk with people who are culturally different from you about these differences? Yes, I have members that have different religious back grounds, different color skin, different beliefs in all standard.
