... enhancing sensitivity and awareness about the potential dilemma, reflecting on whether there is actually a dilemma, determining the parties or stakeholders involved, and engaging in a thorough process of fact finding. Step I is particularly relevant in the practice of multicultural counseling. Enhancing sensitivity and awareness means not only being aware of the ethical component of ... consideration. Counselors need to ascertain the extent to which a client is actually representative of the cultural patterns of the referent group (Sciarra, 1999). Sciarra described a process whereby indiv...

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... enhancing sensitivity and awareness about the potential dilemma, reflecting on whether there is actually a dilemma, determining the parties or stakeholders involved, and engaging in a thorough process of fact finding. Step I is particularly relevant in the practice of multicultural counseling. Enhancing sensitivity and awareness means not only being aware of the ethical component of ... consideration. Counselors need to ascertain the extent to which a client is actually representative of the cultural patterns of the referent group (Sciarra, 1999). Sciarra described a process whereby indiv...

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... 2007). The individualistic self that is supported by psychotherapy can be contrasted with the collectivist self that is found in many other cultures. In sociocentric cultures, the healing process typically involves rituals that engage the whole family or community. The purpose of healing is to establish the person's connectedness and restructure himself in relation to others. ... match a patient with a therapist who shares the same ethnocultural background. Tseng (1999) believes that the congruence of ethnocultural background between therapist and patient can benefit the therapy process...

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Globalization is essentially a process by which an ever tightening network of ties that cut across national political boundaries connects communities in a single, interdependent whole, a shrinking world where local differences are steadily eroded and subsumed ... , clothing and technology) as well as their values such as individualism so as to "modernize" indigenous host communities who were viewed as primitive due to their cultures. This process, referred to as cultural imperialism, is gradually destroying cultural diversity which is one of the major sources of revenue in the tourism industr...

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... , "Instantaneous communication facilitates the expansion of markets and outsourcing of production in different areas of the globe, augmenting the demand for simultaneous translations in multiple languages while accelerating the translation process.(396) reiterating the idea that translation has become endemic to all aspects of human life in the globalized world. Seen from a cultural perspective, translation takes on the role of ... . The importance of learning about people from different cultures and racial backgrounds has been considered vital for greater growth and development, since ...

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... levels, seek ways to integrate the two. Scholars specializing in multicultural education agree that at its most fundamental level, multicultural education represents an orientation to schooling and the teaching-learning process that is grounded in the democratic ideals of justice and equality (Banks, 1995; Gay, 1994; Sleeter, 1995). Some would argue that justice and equality have always been the focus of ... to have access as White households" (pp. 14-15). This situation is reflective of the "digital divide" phenomenon. However, while technology can facilitate the content integration in...

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... convey the theme of the experience of assimilating into a new place and again also used to illustrate how a home reflects on one's identity. In comparison to both their parents, the process of adapting to American culture come much more easily to Gogol and Sonia. They grow up speaking English natively, and are much more interested in American food and pop culture ... ...

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... for the next generation of aborigines, the children. It was believed that by removing the children from their aboriginal parents and placing them among other non-indigenous peoples that the process of assimilation would be easier and that over time, indigenous culture and identity would disappear, thus, that it would not be possible to tell indigenous and non-indigenous people apart ... ...

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... destinations. A central part of the localisation argument is, then, that culture plays a role in the consumption and decoding of products and their promotion. Looking at the decoding and eventually consumption process from the point of view of the consumer, acknowledges that what appears to the producer is not necessarily the same as what appears to the consumer - in other words, a standardised ... ...

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... to underlying ethnic and territorial contexts and set them in a wider historical intersection between cultural ties and political communities. He asserts that as these influenced, and were influenced by, the process of administration, centralization, economic transformations, mass communication and the disintegration of traditions which we associate with modernity, they are crucial to any understanding of nationalism. In a period when other forces ... ...

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