Reflections on Narrative and Cultural Humility

2020 ◽  
pp. 175-186
Author(s):  
Ruthellen Josselson
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Cultural Humility ◽  
Strong Case ◽  
Binary Description ◽  
Illuminating Light ◽  
East West

This chapter reviews the literature on East/West cultural differences in light of the author’s experience in China. It considers the nuances of the individualist/collectivistic binary description of cultures and contests this as a meaningful distinction, arguing that these are on a continuum, with elements of both at every point. It makes a strong case for the importance of cultural humility, which involves being open to surprise and nurturing curiosity about how others think and construe their experience in their own terms, through their own narratives. It means learning to recognize our own taken-for-granted assumptions. Narrative sheds a more illuminating light on culture than abstractions and has the possibility of representing culture with vividness and respect for profound differences.

Tilting the Axis of Global Play: From East/West to South/North

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne-Marie Schleiner
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Historical Review ◽  
The United States ◽  
Global South ◽  
Game Studies ◽  
Cultural Paradigms ◽  
Gaming Culture ◽  
Game Industry ◽  
East West

‘Tilting the Axis of Global Play’ presents an historical review of East vs. West tensions between the United States and Japan, drawing past game studies literature. I posit that an East/West framework, although rightly recognizing national and regional cultural differences in the emergence of the game industry, has limits that a South/North perspective better addresses transnationally. Like other industries, the game industry leverages globalization to exploit Southern labor in the fabrication of game consoles and other game hardware. And predominant Northern cultural paradigms are disseminated globally in the fictional scenarios of highly produced Triple A games. Despite this disequilibrium, I make the case that in the global South, players and other gaming culture participants contribute meaningfully to transnational gaming culture.

scholarly journals East-West cultural differences in context-sensitivity are evident in early childhood

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 198-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toshie Imada ◽  
Stephanie M. Carlson ◽  
Shoji Itakura
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Context Sensitivity ◽  
East West

The Power of Mutual Understanding

Gateway State ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 79-115
Author(s):  
Sarah Miller-Davenport
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Peace Corps ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
Educational Exchange ◽  
Intercultural Communications ◽  
The Military ◽  
East West

This chapter investigates how the idealistic imaginings of America's newest state were institutionalized through an effort to establish Hawaiʻi as a center for global educational exchange. Hawaiʻi statehood arrived at a moment when the United States was increasingly going beyond its borders to draw foreign peoples into its orbit. The East-West Center and the Peace Corps both enlisted Hawaiʻi in this effort by designating it as an ideal site for fostering mutual understanding, as a place where foreigners could be trained in American economic and cultural practices and where foreign ways could be demystified for Americans. These efforts would in turn win over people from the decolonizing world, whose racial and cultural differences were seen as obstacles to be conquered in the service of modernization. The ideas on intercultural communications developed at the East-West Center and the Peace Corps would eventually be taken up more broadly, notably by the military in its campaign to secure the allegiance of South Vietnamese peasants.

Cross-Cultural Interactions and Shared Decision Making

2021 ◽  
pp. 141-164
Author(s):  
Sabrina F. Derrington ◽  
Erin Paquette
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Shared Decision Making ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Cultural Humility ◽  
Shared Decision ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Implicit Biases ◽  
Culturally Different

Authentic shared decision making depends on the quality of interpersonal interactions and communication, which can be profoundly influenced by cultural differences. The concept of culture itself is multidimensional and dynamic, including race, ethnicity, language, religion, socioeconomic status, geography, family traditions, perceptions of illness and death, and the culture of medicine itself. Cultural differences between health care providers and patients and families intersect and overlap in important ways. Shared decision making can be derailed when providers hold assumptions and implicit biases about culturally different patients and families. This chapter explores the interplay between culture and shared decision making, highlighting cases in which cultural differences may impact decision making and suggesting recommendations for optimizing cultural humility in all aspects of communication and shared decision making.

Yin-yang dialectics and communitarianism in cross-cultural management research

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 492-500 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chao C. Chen
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Cultural Difference ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Management Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Cultural Management ◽  
Organization And Management ◽  
Yin Yang ◽  
Cross Cultural Management ◽  
East West

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to comment on “Global implication of the indigenous epistemological system from the East: How to Apply yin-yang balancing to paradox management” by Li (2016). As a pioneer in developing indigenous Chinese management theories, Li has been focused on extracting essential principles of the Chinese yin-yang philosophy and applying them to organization and management phenomena within and outside China (Li, 1998, 2012, 2014a, b). In this paper (Li, 2016), Li sharpens his thinking on the unique attributes of the Chinese yin-yang balancing perspective so as to both distinguish it from and connect it to Western Aristotelian and Hegelian philosophies in regard to contradictions and paradoxes that are increasingly more prevalent in contemporary organizations. The author found Li’s paper thought provoking and highly relevant to cross-cultural management research. The author reflects on the yin and yang of the yin-yang perspective itself and discusses how it can be extended for theorizing about cross-cultural or inter-cultural management research. Design/methodology/approach Applying yin-yang dialectics on the East-West cultural differences, this commentary contends that the strengths and weaknesses of the cultural mindsets of the East and the West are relative and potentially complementary to each other, and seeks to balance and integrate Eastern and Western perspectives for theorizing and tackling cultural differences and conflicts in a globalized world. Findings On the basis of yin-yang dialectics on cultural differences, a communitarianism model is proposed for cross-cultural researchers to balance and integrate individualism and collectivism, a well-established East-West cultural difference. Originality/value The theoretical model of communitarianism builds upon but transcends either Eastern or Western cultural differences toward a viable global value system.

Cultural Humility: Introduction to the Special Issue

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua N. Hook ◽  
Don E. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Cultural Humility ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Background Theory ◽  
Ideological Differences ◽  
Over Time

This issue of the Journal of Psychology and Theology focuses on cultural humility. Cultural humility is an important domain of general humility that focuses on cultural differences. In this introduction to the special issue, we first define cultural humility, and briefly share some history for how the construct has developed over time. Then, we present some theory and research that has explored cultural humility in the context of religious, spiritual, and ideological differences and conflict. After sharing some background theory and research on cultural humility, we summarize the subsequent articles in this special issue.

Reflective Journaling in Nursing Student Study Abroad Programs: Connecting Experience and Meaning

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-32
Author(s):  
Linda Sobel
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Study Abroad ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Nursing Student ◽  
Health Professions ◽  
Cultural Humility ◽  
Reflective Journaling ◽  
Study Abroad Programs ◽  
Health Care Experiences

The purpose of this article is to describe the development and use of a framework of reflective journaling to help nursing and other health professions students understand their health-care experiences in study abroad courses. The framework provides specific, intentional, theory-based guidelines for connecting students' observations and experience with understanding of cultural differences that can lead to cultural humility (Foronda, Baptiste, Reinholdt, & Ousman, 2016).

Cultural Sensitivity in the Context of Cultural Humility

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert M. Ortega ◽  
Roxanna Duntley-Matos
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Cultural Sensitivity ◽  
Culturally Responsive ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Cultural Influences ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Cultural Humility

In social work practice, our ability to demonstrate culturally responsive service delivery has become a perennial challenge. The rapidly changing landscape in the context of cultural and linguistic diversity makes the urgency of establishing culturally inclusive professional practice more necessary. Evidence of its importance can be found in federal directives, state mandates and professional best practice guidelines that are undergirded by a recognition that responsive practice requires an awareness of cultural influences and manifest differences. This is particularly important as efforts to more fully engage with culturally responsive practice coincides with the push for a higher standard for professional caring to be culturally relevant. From a basic social science-informed perspective, culturally based experiences vary in such profound ways, both within and across groups and communities, that limiting practice to common or core sets of cultural meanings or shared practices for practice purposes merely minimizes the complexity of culture. Cultural experiences are experienced and expressed in complex and dynamic ways, and how cultural differences become framed has major implications for how they become recognized and incorporated into socially just practice. Various approaches to cultural sensitivity and institutional attachments appear in the literature although there is a particular need to uncover the many ways that a focus on cultural competence may impair our ability to embrace the ambiguity and uncertainty of cultural differences. Cultural humility offers a perspective that invites tolerance, inclusion, and diversity while promoting transformation, facilitation, and collaboration in knowledge development and in the search for cultural relevance in its social work application. It is a perspective that ultimately invites the sharing of both social opportunities and social fate, and is at the core of socially just empowerment

Contextualization of Mental Representations and Evaluative Responses

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Ye ◽  
Bertram Gawronski
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Context Effects ◽  
Mental Representations ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
Thinking Styles ◽  
Contextual Cues ◽  
Cultural Research ◽  
Cross Cultural Research ◽  
The Impact ◽  
East West

This chapter provides a theory-based analysis of East–West differences in context effects on evaluative responses. Drawing on documented cultural differences in social cognition and a recently proposed representational theory of contextualized evaluation, the chapter discusses how cultural differences in attention and thinking styles may influence the integration of contextual information into mental representations of conflicting evaluative information and, thus, context effects on evaluative responses. The analysis reveals two potential patterns of cultural differences, with diverging predictions regarding the impact of contextual cues on evaluative responses among East Asians and Westerners. Implications of the current analysis for cross-cultural research are discussed.

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