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Keisha Marie Smith Grace Bible College

Keisha Marie Smith Grace Bible College There are five cultural barriers in the United States they are as follows language preconceptions and stereotypes discriminatory treatment judgement and finally stress All of these are parts of personal interpersonal and organization institutional level and remain issues in today's society The concept of culture can be harder to grasp it subjective as well as objective a more useful definition Leininger states that culture is learned shared and has transmitted values beliefs norms and lifeways of a group which are generally transmitted intergenerationally and influence one's thinking and action models Hogan 2013 Language is a very important part of culture it is how everyone verbally communicates no matter what background they come from Language is a part of the general aspects of culture there is also non verbal communication Language barriers can have deleterious effects Flores 2006 Our book as well as the article mentioned times when a language barrier created tension The article briefly mentioned a women speaking Spanish came into the E R and the doctor thought she had stated she hit her child that led to the doctor calling the Department of Children Services and all because no interpretation was used 



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