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Cultural Awareness on Country Children
Cultural awareness is the ability to be aware of other peoples' culture. Even with our different cultures, all of us should be treated equally. In addition, we should be aware of other peoples' cultures. This might involve getting to know about traditional beliefs, meaning of words, remedies, phrases, gestures, customs, significant holidays, rituals, and activities. It involves continuously developing awareness of our own and others' culture. It becomes central when we interact and meet with people of different cultures. People have different ways of evaluating, interpreting, and viewing things. Mostly, what is considered as inappropriate behavior in one culture is frequently viewed as appropriate in another one's culture. Misunderstandings arise when we use our own meaning to describe the sense of our reality. It is a difficult task to become aware of our cultural dynamics because it is not conscience to us. Most of us have learnt to view and do things at an unconscious level since childhood (Machado, 2009). In most cases, we need to get out of our cultural borders so that we can learn how our behaviors are affected by culture. It is extremely helpful and necessary to collect feedback from foreign colleagues to get more clarification on our cultural characters. Increased cultural awareness refers to the ability to see both the negative and positive aspects of our cultural differences. When an organization requires its employees to think and behave in a certain way, it leads to problems of cultural diversity. It usually raises the level of complexity and confusion and makes it impossible to reach at an agreement. On the other side, cultural diversity becomes an advantage if organizations expand and take up new different approaches of solving problems. In such case, diversity creates valuable skills and behaviors (Machado, 2009).
Cultural awareness also means being aware that differences coexist within things…
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Harris, L. & Rader, D. (2011). New Kid in School: Using Literature to Help Children in Transition. Michigan: Teachers College Press
Machado, J. (2009). Early Childhood Experiences in Language Arts: Early Literacy. New York:
Cengage Learning
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