Assignment Task 1:
What Is Culture? Types of Culture, Elements of Culture, Characteristics of Culture
Prior to beginning work on this discussion forum,
- Read Chapter 2 in Diversity, Cultural Humility, and the Helping Professions: Building Bridges Across Difference and investigate the topics of cultural identity, acculturation, assimilation, immigration, genocide, and multiculturalism.
- Examine What Is Culture? Types of Culture, Elements of Culture, Characteristics of Culture
Each of us uses remnants from our culture to determine our cultural identity and the social rules associated with membership. This may include language, food/drinks, values, belief systems, rituals and traditions, techniques, tools, and skills that can be associated with each culture. These practices and behaviors help determine various social interactions that influence relationships.
In your initial discussion post, explore these topics:
- Describe your cultural identity using the culture wheel.
- Identify the ways that you may have altered your cultural identity in order to assimilate and acculturate into the American culture and include the usage of language, the adoption of values, traditions, rituals, foods, tools, objects, and so forth.
- Describe the advantages and disadvantages of the use of the term multiculturalism.
- Summarize the historic and systemic societal bias found in the helping professions (i.e., public health and law enforcement) against minorities.
- Analyze the methods used in medicine against various groups in Nazi Germany that can be attributed to antisemitism, genocide, and ethnic cleansing.
The text for this assignment:
Loue, S. (2022). Diversity, cultural humility, and the helping professions: Building bridges across difference. Springer.
Assignment Task 2:
Loss of Accent and Cultural Identity
For this assignment, you will be creating a PowerPoint presentation. Prior to beginning work on this presentation,
- Read the article Come Join Us and Lose your Accent: Accent Modification Courses as Hierarchization of International Students
- Watch the video Kasia Suarez: Losing Sight of your Cultural Identity
Millions of international students immigrate to the United States in pursuit of a quality education. They struggle to speak the language, learn the U.S. customs and traditions, and adapt and assimilate. While others may seek to acculturate, others may hide their accent and cultural identity.
In your presentation,
- Discuss the factors associated with need for accent reduction (AR) and accent modification (AM) courses that are available at various universities, colleges, and businesses.
- Identify the stereotypes associated with people with foreign accents.
- Describe the ways that AR and AM courses may encourage racial inequities and threaten cultural identity.
- Examine the reasons why immigrants would choose to acculturate to the dominant culture, or hide their accents and places of national origin, and its effect on their social and psychological well-being.
- Formulate three solutions that can help immigrants embrace their accent and cultural identity.
The Loss of Accent and Cultural Identity presentation
- Must be 10 to 12 double-spaced slides in length (not including title and references slides) and formatted according to APA style