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A 3 page paper which examines how it is necessary to have an understanding of social systems and the human development variable in order to be culturally competent. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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are finding it necessary to interact with many different cultures. It is slowly becoming the case that any globally involved nation, and thus its people, cannot survive without cultural competency.
The following paper examines how an understanding of social systems and the human development variable are crucial in developing cultural competency. Cultural Competency Social systems are perhaps the
most important element when understanding any culture, including ones own culture. Even within ones own culture, or society, it is important to understand that there are many social systems, and
in ones own culture this can be confusing enough. As such it becomes important to really try, at the very least, to accept there are many social systems and to
understand as many of those social systems as possible when dealing with cultures outside ones own. The human development variable, which clearly involves cultures and how people are raised
in a particular culture, plays an equally important part, although some are arguing that culture, as a variable, is leading to problems and as such the human development variable, regarding
cultures, is becoming more and more important when speaking of cultural competency. Social systems, in essence, must be looked at very intricately and completely in order to not stereotype cultures
in relationship to human development categories. In looking at this perspective one author notes, in quoting another, that, "Psychologists often speak about the power of culture as an independent
variable, but they fail to pay attention to the power structures that frame culture...Class differences are typically neglected and the perspective of subordinate groups is therefore overlooked" (McNulty, 2004). When
looking at, for example, human development variables with social systems it may well be that too often people or large cultures, are pegged in one way or another such as
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