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What is Culture? Culture is shared values, norms, traditions, customs, history, and beliefs of a group of people. Culture has a multitude of aspects Cultural factors include geography, age, socioeconomic status, religion, gender, education, language, politics, sexual orientation, and not just race, language and ethnicity. Culture shapes how people experience their world, make decisions about quality of life, work and how people relate to others. It’s dynamic. One of the most important aspects of culture is what is not seen, that which controls values and thought patterns. CC Definitions “To be culturally competent doesn’t mean you are an authority in the values and beliefs of every culture. What it means is that you hold a deep respect for cultural differences and are eager to learn, and willing to accept, that there are many ways of viewing the world” --Okokon O. Udo CC Definitions “The process in which the [service or program] provider continuously strives to achieve the ability to effectively offer services within the cultural context of a client (individual, family or community)”. Campinha-Bacote 1998 Cultural Humility a lifelong process of self-reflection and self-critique does not require mastery of lists of different or peculiar beliefs and behaviors supposedly pertaining to certain groups of patients the provider is encouraged to develop a respectful partnership with each [client] through client-focused interviewing, exploring similarities and differences between their own and each clients priorities, goals, and capacities the most serious barrier to culturally appropriate care is not a lack of knowledge of the details of any given cultural orientation, but the providers failure to develop self-awareness and a respectful attitude toward diverse points of view. Melanie Tervalon and Jann Murray-Garcia, 2001 Cultural Competency and Humility Cultural Awareness: A deliberate action of becoming sensitive to the values, beliefs, li