Cultural difference.

  Post a response to the following: Briefly identify and describe your culture. Describe your first memory of a cultural difference. Explain the information a social worker would need to know about an individual’s or family’s culture in order to effectively deliver services to them. Describe potential consequences of a lack of cultural awareness on the social worker’s part.   Requirement to Assignment - Post identifies and describes the student's culture. Description includes specific examples. Post explains how what the student identified relates to culture. - Post describes a memory of a cultural difference. Post identifies which aspects of the difference related to culture. Post explains why this was an aspect of culture and not individual difference. - Post provides a detailed explanation about what a social worker would need to know about culture. Post correctly identifies cultural aspects and explains how the information the student identified relates to culture. Response to this prompt is supported by at least 2 references to assigned readings. - Post provides detailed description of potential consequences of lack of cultural awareness. Post provides specific examples. Description is supported by 2 or more references to assigned readings.   Consider the different aspects of culture such as: language, communication style, art, customs/traditions (e.g., holidays, weddings, funerals), values, stories, religion, food, social habits (e.g., eye contact, how close one stands, how one greets or says “good”), gender roles, clothing, music. Reflect on the first time you remember someone else displaying a different cultural characteristic than your own. Where were you? What did you notice? How did you respond?