cultural conditioning

is how people acquire their culture, how they learn all the behaviors that are regarded as right and wrong in their society.

cultural conditioning

A type of discrimination that involves prejudice against people based on their age.

AGEISM

Its elements, pervasiveness, and impact, as well as similarities and differences between major cultural groups.

BECOME AWARE OF CULTURE

MANAGING CULTURAL DIVERSITY

BECOME AWARE OF CULTURE LEARN ABOUT YOUR OWN CULTURE RECOGNIZE YOUR OWN BIASES BUILD INTERACTION SKILLS

Practice new behaviors through self-analysis activities, skill builder case studies, interviews, and applying your new understandings to actual people situations at work, school, anywhere you encounter diverse groups.

BUILD INTERACTION SKILLS

Means cultures of countries as a whole. · All Arabs and Muslims are terrorists. · All people who live in England have bad teeth. · Italian or French people are the best lovers. · All Blacks outside of the United States are poor. · All Jews are greedy. · All Asians are good at math. All Asians like to eat rice and drive slow.

CULTURE STEREOTYPES

is held in place by a system of beliefs and cultural attitudes that ranks people according to economic status, family lineage, job status, level of education, and other divisions.

Classism

Is based on a person's membership in an ethnic sub-culture, which is a segment of a larger culture or society.

ETHNIC PREJUDICE

Common stereotypes of men and women · Men are strong and do all the work. · Men are the "backbone." · Women are not as smart as a man · Women cannot do as good of a job as a man. · Girls are not good at sports.Guys are messy and unclean. · Men who spend too much time on the computer or read are geeks.

GENDER PROFILING

A stereotype that involves grouping of individuals such as: Skaters, Goths (they have morbid fashion & style of dress), Gangsters, and Preps (means image conscious) are a few examples. Most of this stereotyping takes place in schools.

GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS

Negative attitudes and feelings towards homosexuality or people identified or perceived as being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. Homophobic people may use mean language and name-calling when they talk about lesbian and gay people.

Homophobia

Now you actually try to carry out the activity; you sit down at a table and begin eating with your hands. At this stage, it is awkward for you, and you're conscious all the while of what you're doing, trying not to make mistakes. You most likely are unable to eat and carry on a conversation simultaneously, for all your attention is on the act of eating.

IMITATION

Without needing much reinforcement, over time and with practice, you now know how to eat with your hands. You may still have to pay attention to what you're doing, but not as much as during stages 2 and 3.

INTERNALIZATION

Recognize that the beliefs and customs that you may accept as reality are only one way of viewing the world, the way of your culture.

LEARN ABOUT YOUR OWN CULTURE

At this stage, you are only beginning to become aware of a particular behavior but have not yet tried to do it yourself.

OBSERVATION

CULTURAL CONDITIONING PROCESS

OBSERVATION IMITATION REINFORCEMENT INTERNALIZATION SPONTANEOUS MANIFESTATION

to the systematic tendency to pre-judge people who are different as somehow deficient or to view a whole category of people as better or worse than another.

PREJUDICE

• Focusing about race. • For example, saying that all Blacks are good at sports is a stereotype, because it's grouping the race together to indicate that everyone of that race is a good athlete.

RACIAL PROFILING

COMMON STEREOTYPES:

RACIAL PROFILING GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS SEXUAL STEREOTYPES CULTURE STEREOTYPES GENDER PROFILING

Prejudice based on racial group and is typically a problem in societies where there is predominant majority group and one or more cultural subgroups.

RACISM

The ways in which you stereotype, assume, judge, and discriminate, so you can own them and move beyond them.

RECOGNIZE YOUR OWN BIASES

As you eat, people encourage you when you do it right and correct you when wrong. Over the course of several meals, you naturally try to do what they tell you.

REINFORCEMENT

Prejudice based on gender and is said by some to be the root of all prejudice and discrimination. While women are roughly half the world's population, they are a minority in economic and political arenas and have fewer rights and privileges than men.

SEXISM

TYPES OF PREJUDICE:

SEXISM AGEISM RACISM ETHNIC PREJUDICE

suggest that any feminine man is gay and any masculine woman is a lesbian. Those who believe gay stereotypes may also believe that homosexuality is immoral, wrong and an abomination.

SEXUAL STEREOTYPES

Now you're able to eat "the right way" without paying any conscious attention to what you're doing. It comes naturally; as you eat, you're aware of other things, not the act of eating.

SPONTANEOUS MANIFESTATION

Refers to labeling and categorizing things or people, which can be necessary and useful in making sense of complex reality, but harmful when "people categories"

STEREOTYPE

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