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Aspects Of Care (2)
Observations Caring for people from diverse ethnic communities is presenting us with new challenges. Our encounters with people who are different to us in ethnic and cultural backgrounds often point to gaps in our knowledge and skills when dealing with them. Our knowledge may often be limited in respect to:
This may be due in part to the fact that much of what is taught about health, diseases and care may be from an ethnocentric perspective. Historically, knowledge generation in the modern context has been predominantly from a ‘western’ scientific perspective. Texts and illustrations have predominantly featured examples from the white European perspective. The knowledge that is derived and handed down may, for example, engender confidence in recognising pallor in a person who is white. We may then ask whether we can observe pallor with equal ease in a person of Black Caribbean or African ancestry (Scenario 3). Similarly, whether we can always communicate equally effectively with a child (Scenario 2) or adult (Scenario 4) from a different cultural and/or different linguistic background or a different background than our own? All of these issues concerning competence in caring for people from different backgrounds are equally important for black and minority ethnic students as well as for white students.
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