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Cross Cultural Learning Module
Domain 1: Professional Practice Expectations: beliefs, values, attitudes and behaviors for the professional dietitian level of practice
KRDN: Demonstrate cultural humility, awareness of personal biases and an understanding of cultural differences as they contribute to diversity, equity and inclusion.
Domain 2: Clinical and Customer Services: development and delivery of information, products and services to individuals, groups and populations
KRDN: Demonstrate counseling and education methods to facilitate behavior change for and enhance wellness for diverse individuals and groups.
I. Watch this TedTalk video on social justice, race, culture, ethnicity, power and privilege.
Answer these questions, demonstrating that you watched the video:
1. What are some of the assumptions Chimamanda's friends made about her?
2. What does Chimamada mean by a single story? How do single stories form?
3. The term privilege means, "a right or benefit given to some people and not to others."Sources of privilege in the United States include being classically attractive (symmetrical features, strong jaw line, full head of hair etc.), white, male, heterosexual, thin (women), tall/muscular (men), educated, having a higher socio-economic status, being Christian, living in an able body (in other words: without disability), even having relatively straight, full hair. Privilege can sometimes be invisible to those who have it and it is not uncommon for those with privilege to believe they have earned it or to believe that if one worked hard enough, anyone could experience its benefits. Acknowledging one's privilege can help to increase understanding for the experience of others who do not benefit from the same privilege.
Select one of your sources of privilege anddescribe what it's like to have itand what you think it must be like for someone who doesn't hold the same privilege. Here's an example: In having mom privilege, I can pick my child up from daycare without question that I am my kid's mom. On the other hand, my husband is asked to prove his identity and relationship to our children. The rules apply to both of us, but I am given the benefit of the doubt and am not asked to follow the same rules. For my husband, the inequity of this practice is maddening. It makes him feel like a secondary caregiver. He feels like "he can't win" because he's being asked to be an equal partner in our parenting responsibilities, but he's still being treated like he cannot be trusted in the same way.
4. Unacknowledged privilege can negatively affect the counseling dynamic. In what ways can you see a counselor's unacknowledged privilege undermining effective communication? (Hint, counselor white privilege, thin privilege, high socioeconomic privilege and able-bodied privilege have specific relevance within nutrition counseling).
II. Read the following article: Cultural Competency: Values, Traditions and Effective Practice
Answer these questions, demonstrating that you read the article:
1. Where are you on the cultural competence continuum (page 3) and why do you believe you are there? (Be honest- no judgment here!)
2. A first step toward cultural competence is to examine your own cultural background and ask yourself questions about your own values, beliefs, and practices.
a. Describe your personal cultural background.
(Think about what you would teach a child if you were going to raise them with your family values, traditions, and customs.)
b. Which cultures are you most familiar with?
c. Consider the single stories you might have been taught or were raised around regarding other groups of people? Discuss 2 or 3 of them (again - no judgement here).Here's an example of what I mean: Millennials love avocado toast. In fact, millennials have less money than their parents did at the same age because they spend all their money on pricey avocadoes.
d. Discuss how assumptions such as thesemight make nutrition counseling more difficult or less effective?
3. Explain how general knowledge of cultures can be used, while avoiding stereotyping. See page 4.
4. Describe some key differences between American culture and other cultures (page 5) and how knowledge of these differences can enhance counseling.
5. Watch the following example of motivational interviewing being used in a cross-cultural counseling session
Answer these questions, demonstrating that you watched the video:
a. Describe some motivational interview strategies that were used in this video.
b. Explain how motivational interviewing may be an effective counseling method when counseling individuals from cultures different from your own. Please refer specifically to the Spirit of MI.
6. What did you learn about cross cultural counseling from completing this learning module?