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Cultural Proficiency Continuum
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Cultural Proficiency Continuum
Six points along the cultural deficiency continuum that indicate unique ways of perceiving and responding to differences
Cultural Competence
"See the difference; understand the difference that difference makes"
Cultural Pre-Competence
"See the difference; respond to it inappropriately"
Cultural Proficiency
"See the difference; respond positively. Engage and adapt
Interacting with others using the five essential elements of cultural proficiency as the standard for behavior and practice.
Examples:
- Advocacy
- On-going education of self and others
- Support, modeling, and risk-taking behaviors
Recognizing the limitations of one's skills or an organizations practices when interacting with other cultural groups.
Example:
- Delegate diversity work to others, to a committee
- Quick fix, packaged short-term programs
- Unclear rules, expectations for all diversity programs for staff
Esteem culture; knowing how to learn about organizational culture; interacting effectively in a variety of cultural groups
Examples:
- Interdependence
- Personal change and transformation
- Alliance for groups other than one's own
Cultural Blindness
"See the difference; act like you don't"
Acting as if cultural differences do not matter or as if there are not differences among/between cultures
Examples:
- Discomfort in noting difference
- Beliefs/actions that assume world is fair and achievement is based on merit
Cultural Incapacity
"See the difference; make it wrong"
Believing in the superiority of ones own culture and behaving in ways that dis-empower another's culture
Examples:
- Disproportionate allocation of resources to certain groups
- Lowered expectations
- Expecting "others" to change: My way or the highway
Cultural Destructiveness
"see the difference; stomp it out"
Using ones power to eliminate the culture of another
Examples:
- Genocide
- Exclusion Laws
- Shun/Avoid certain curriculum topics