Cross-Cultural Communication and Culture Shock Annotated Bibliography

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From a mindset dictating that necessities for survival are the goal, to, say, the competitive and pretentious mindset of Beverly Hills "spoiled brats" where the vitals for survival are covered, and thereby taken for granted, by a society of people exhibiting similar behavioral problems, these Phases of Culture Shock and Signs and Symptoms of Culture Shock become quite apparent, and even more so by having lived this transition.

This text is full of examples so the reader can learn to identify and label these reasons one would experience such shock faced when one adapts to new cultural experiences and develops changed perceptions towards our own traditions and beliefs. "Shell shock" or "combat fatigue" or absentmindedness, up to a diagnosed post-traumatic stress disorder makes sense once having read this text and thereby defining such psychological intricacies.

II. Critique

Due to technological advances in biological ancestry research, intercessions, strategic investigation, and the systematized analysis noted herein, this second edition of Binang Goonj: Bridging Cultures in Aboriginal Health from Anne-Katrin Eckermann, Toni Dowd, Ena Chong, Lynette Nixon, Roy Gray, and Sally Johnson examines the customs and methodology behind these in-the-now circumstantial dangers. By gaining a full grasp of the creation of this mess, the history behind the what-went-wrong in this situation, hopefully an answer will be discovered. In this paper, I will focus in on articles by Gina Taylor, Migrants and Refugees, and Irena Papadopolous, Promoting Culturally Competent Research.
Both Papadopolous and Taylor appear up front, in the opening five-chapter theoretical section, which oversees the aesthetic proficiency and capability of our current cultural competence in the practices exercised. This subsection concerns the evolution, expansion, progression, and development of cultural competence as well as culturally competent healthcare attentiveness, or at least the European view; many matters in question concerning ethics, refugees, moral, and behavioral fieldwork and experimentation are addressed as well.

In lieu of the fact that most theoretical concepts that now mandate or authorize current procedures were not recently developed by any means modern, the most important factor then becomes the prominence of systematic coordination of strict procedural order to be followed. Irena Papadopoulos, Promoting Culturally Competent Research, and Gina Taylor, Migrants and Refugees, will help further accentuate this.

Since these professionals are available to satisfy the quite diverse populace treated, Promoting Culturally Competent Research stresses a critical reason to initiate more advantageous cultural competence amongst care givers and nurses alike. Regardless, merely a restricted amount of coherent understanding is available concerning any consideration, yet there is limited clarity about what this means or how it can be measured.

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