Question

1.What is the difference between Minority status and Culture? 2.What is the difference between Western and Eastern culture? 3.What is the difference between a stigma vs misdiagnosing a mental illness?4. What are 3 norms of etiquette in across cultures?5. What is somatization?6 What are three specific types of cultural concepts?7. What are 3 ways immigrants face when arriving to a United States?8. What is the difference between acculturation and assimilation?9. What are some ways you feel like a Nurse is culturally knowledgeable?10. What is stereotyping?

Answer 1

1. Minority status:
Minority, a culturally, ethnically, or racially distinct group that coexists with but is subordinate to a more dominant group. As the term is used in the social sciences, this subordinacy is the chief defining characteristic of a minority group. As such, minority status does not necessarily correlate to population.
Culture:
The customs, ideas, beliefs, etc. of a particular society, country, etc.

2. Difference between eastern and western culture:
It has been said that East and West can never meet up. They differ in history, religion, political system and so on. ... The major difference between eastern and western culture is that people in the east are more conservative and traditional than the general population in the west.
-First of all, Eastern and Western people have different attitudes toward their life.
-Eastern people live in time, which means that they follow the natural order of time to
do what they ought to do and work step by step. Eastern people don’t like their schedules to be messed up and usually hate to change things once they decide the sequence.
-By contrast, Western people live in space. They prefer to follow their dreams and do what they want to do. Sometimes they are not as pragmatic as the Eastern people,
but they often achieve great goals in their life.

3. Stigma:
Stigma is when someone views you in a negative way because you have a distinguishing characteristic or personal trait that's thought to be, or actually is, a disadvantage (a negative stereotype). Unfortunately, negative attitudes and beliefs toward people who have a mental health condition are common.
Misdiagnosing of mental illness:
there are cases where a person may be wrongly diagnosed, or the expert is unable to come up with a specific diagnosis. This is known as misdiagnosis, and it happens more often than you may imagine.Feb

4. Social manners are in three categories:
(i) manners of hygiene,
(ii) manners of courtesy,
(iii) manners of cultural norm, each category accounts for an aspect of the functional role that manners play in a society.

5. Somatization:
Somatization is the word we use for the physical (or body) expression of stress and emotions through the mind-body connection. We all somatise. In fact, up to 12% of doctors' visits are for somatic symptoms. Somatic symptoms are very real.

6. Culture unites people of a single society together through shared beliefs, traditions, and expectations. The two basic types of culture are material culture, physical things produced by a society, and nonmaterial culture, intangible things produced by a society.

7. Immigrants face
a.Language barriers
b.Employment opportunities
c.Housing
d.Access to local services
e.Transportation issues
f.Cultural differences.

8. Acculturation:
Acculturation is a process of social, psychological, and cultural change that stems from the balancing of two cultures while adapting to the prevailing culture of the society.
Assimilation:
the state or condition of being assimilated, or of being absorbed into something. the process of adopting the language and culture of a dominant social group or nation, or the state of being socially integrated into the culture of the dominant group in a society:

9. Cultural awareness is a journey that involves letting go of personal presumptions and assumptions about another person, regardless of race, ethnicity or color. Once we reach that awareness, we can then start the process of becoming culturally competent — an important element in the nursing profession.

10. Stereotyping:
stereotype is an over-generalized belief about a particular category of people. It is an expectation that people might have about every person of a particular group. The type of expectation can vary; it can be, for example, an expectation about the group's personality, preferences, or ability.