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Social And Cultural Diversity Leading To Cultural Biases

Amber Hope

Grand Canyon University: MHW-510-Ethics and Cultural Diversity in Mental Health and Wellness

January 15, 2020

Social and Cultural Diversity Leading to Cultural Biases

Due to globalization cross culture has taken the toll. People belonging to different culture are now connected than ever. This has led to cultural diversity in all over the world. The cultural diversity is also called multiculturalism. Cultural diversity instructs us to regard, accept, value, recognize and encourage all individuals belonging from multiple cultures (Erasmus, 2019). People from different cultures view each other through a different lens. Cultural differences may be seen in; ethnicity, race, socioeconomic status, religion, sexual orientation and Gender Orientation. These cultural differences have led to cultural biases in societies. Cultural bias is classified as a psychological condition of individuals and societies. Due to cultural bias menace like discrimination and differences arise. However, to overcome Cultural competency is the solution to remove the cultural bias from society (Abuwala, 2019). Nonetheless, due to increased integration of cultures people develop cultural bias as people view their own culture as a standard and compare the other cultures with it, considering other cultures having low values.

To study cultural biases, cultural archives serve the best purpose (Grout, 2019). Grout has explained that cultural values can be well understood if the social aspect of the cultures is kept in mind. This can be done when cultural archives from the past are drawn and different cultures are studied to get a better understanding. When the archives are explored, biases are also studied and tried to find out the reasons. It is known to everyone in the history that African and Latin American families had to face the cultural biases in the past. Now, the research shows that parents must play their part in making the children powerful psychologically. When parents will learn to teach how to prepare their children for effective cultural communication, they will be successful to make their coming generations happy, healthy and high in self-esteem. Therefore, it becomes the moral duty of the parents to understand the cultural differences first and to teach those differences positively to their children.

Cultural prejudice is turning out to be a major reason for depression and mental fatigue amongst nations (Tanaka, 2019). Tanaka explains how psychotherapy helps the issues created by cultural differences. There are a lot of therapies that can help people to avoid the complexes created by superior races. When lower races learn to combat those differences, it becomes helpful for the lower races to survive in the world. Culture is important to communicate with each other, but on the other hand, it is also important to understand and solve the problems that are created by culture. To solve those issues with the help of therapies is essential for effective communication among all the cultures. It is about the cultural differences and the mood that is affected by culture. Most of the inhabitants are seen to be depressed and cinema therapy is also used to help people. This therapy helps people by creating good emotional appeals. The films are used as entertainment for the people. These films are also used as therapy as well through which people learn how to combat the stress that is created as a result of cultural differences. The film and cinemas are used for infotainment purposes and can help people to grow and develop their communication skills.

The worldwide cultural view makes it essential to research the cultural principles in a superior way than they were analyzed before; by taking the position of social media into account. Connections amongst cultures have been generated. Olteanu analyzed that social data and social communication are also bringing people together. In social media communication, where people learn a lot from different cultures, they can also make false assumptions about other cultures, this can result in the prejudices and biases among different cultures (Olteanu,2019). Hence, social media should be used in a better way to educate people about the culture. Social media use can also be used to educate the people about the culture and to remove cultural biases. It is the ethical basis that defines what are the right and wrong dimensions of the culture. This makes people conscious of their acts, and they exhibit ethical behaviors in their lives.

The diversity of the culture to remove cultural biases is imperative to counsel (Sue, Sue, Neville, & Smith, 2019). The elements that exist in culture include races, ethnicity, sexual identity, socioeconomic culture, religion, and gender discrimination. Multiple races have different notions about other cultures and the discriminatory factors are seen in those cultures which are rich in cultural identities. The counseling of people is essential to remove the problems in social and cultural contexts. This will promote the ease to collaborate and communicate positively. No two countries can be culturally alike and to respect other cultures, it is necessary to make people understand that giving respect to other cultures will make their lives easier. A wellness strategy for the care providers is also essential because they can then easily make available help to others; if their self-help proposal is successful. That is the importance of the self-care of the service providers. When the self-care of the health providers is good, they are better able to teach good analytics to their patients as well. When those practices will become successful, they can also be practiced at the international level. This is also important to be shared at the global level because the multiculturism is seen at the global levels in the whole world. The collaboration and communication among the health providers in the whole world will promote the well-being of human beings to make them stress-free. This will also make the social fabric strong by bringing people to close together.

Cultural prejudice happens when people in societies deem themselves superior. It creates depression among societies. It disturbs the cultural and social fabric. Biasness should be eliminated to make the societies peaceable. The self-care plan of facility providers is also crucial to be designed. Therefore, to eradicate the culture biases the education of psychology used. It is helpful to understand the fact that cultural biases exist everywhere, but they can be treated. Different kinds of measures are there in place that are used to help the marginalized people and it also makes the global culture a harmonized and organized one.

Reference

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