cultural competency
Navigating diverse backgrounds
Cultural competency is the ability to interact effectively with people from different cultural backgrounds.
The term appears frequently in healthcare, education, and business contexts, where professionals must navigate differences in language, customs, values, and communication styles: The hospital requires cultural competency training for all staff.
Critics sometimes dismiss it as a buzzword that reduces complex understanding to a checklist of skills.
- allyshipActive support for marginalized
- accessibilityEase of approach
- advocacyPleading for a cause
- intersectionalityInterconnected identity-based discrimination study
- cultural lensPerspective shaped by heritage
multiculturalism · self-awareness · safe space · humility · cultural adaptation · introspection · lived experience · perspective taking · affirmative action · diversity · implicit bias · implicit bias training · code-switching · healthcare equity · global perspectives · empathy · anthropology · nonverbal communication
cultural competencycultural insensitivity
Disregard for others' traditions
parochialism · insularity · provincialism · narrow-mindedness
cultural competencyethnocentrism
Belief one's culture superior
xenophobia · cultural imperialism · nativism · jingoism · intolerance