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    Understanding Cultural Awareness
    Understanding Cultural Awareness
    Understanding Cultural Awareness
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    Understanding Cultural Awareness

    By Lucy Nkwameni Njomo Bem

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    Someone’s cultural awareness is their understanding of the differences between themselves and people from other countries or other backgrounds, especially differences in attitudes and values.

    There are several levels of cultural awareness that reflect how people grow to perceive cultural differences:

    • My way is the only way. At the first level, people are aware of their way of doing things, and their way is the only way. At this stage, they ignore the impact of cultural differences.
    • I know their way, but my way is better. At the second level, people are aware of other ways of doing things but still consider their way as the best one. In this stage, cultural differences are perceived as a source of problems and people tend to ignore them or reduce their significance.
    • My way and their way. At this level, people are aware of their own way of doing things and others’ ways of doing things, and they choose the best way according to the situation. At this stage, people realise that cultural differences can lead both to problems and benefits and are willing to use cultural diversity to create new solutions and alternatives.
    • Our way. This fourth and final stage brings people from different cultural background together for the creation of a culture of shared meanings. People dialogue repeatedly with others and create new meanings and new rules to meet the needs of a particular situation.

    Although not all people identify with their cultural or religious background, however, culture itself is a fluid entity undergoing transformations as a result of globalisation, migration, and the diaspora influence.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse UK
    Release dateMay 29, 2019
    ISBN9781546295761
    Understanding Cultural Awareness
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    Lucy Nkwameni Njomo Bem

    Lucy Nkwameni Njomo BEM Lucy Njomo is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for African Youth Development Association (AYDA) a Charity organization that aims to support the development all young people including those additional needs and their family. In December 2017 Lucy was awarded a BEM by HM the Queen for her work inI the community. Ms Njomo holds an MA in Human Resources Management, Post-graduate Diploma in Management Studies; Post-graduate in Personal Development and Diploma in Business Consulting. Ms Njomo is a Chartered Member of the Institute of Personnel and Development (CMCIPD): Fellow Member of the Institute of Administrative Management (FInstAM) and Member of Institute for Learning (MIfL). She is accredited by the OCNLR to deliver training in parenting skills and holds a Diploma in Teaching in the Lifelong Learning Sector and Lead Internal Quality Assurer, a qualified training/assessor/IQA with experience in delivery work based learning and apprenticeships.

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      Understanding Cultural Awareness - Lucy Nkwameni Njomo Bem

      Understanding Culture Awareness

      LUCY NKWAMENI NJOMO BEM

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      CONTENTS

      Culture

      What Is Culture?

      Cultural Awareness

      Beliefs Systems

      CULTURE

      The term Culture is used by social scientists for a people’s whole way of life. Culture consists of all the ideas, objects and ways of doing things created by the group. Cultural includes arts, beliefs, customs, inventions, language, technology and traditions. A culture is any way of life, simple or complex.

      Culture consists of learned ways of acting, feeling and thinking rather than biologically determined ways, some simple animals act on the basis of information carried in their genes, the parts of a cell that determine inherited traits. This biologically inherited information even includes the animal’s ways of obtaining food and work out their ways of doing these things, a process that never ends. Culture is a set of simple extensions of various part of the body.

      Without culture the astronauts could not have reached the moon nor survived there. The human body needs oxygen and a certain range of

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