Defining Culture

You will likely recall from the course objectives that a large  portion of this course is focused on having you examine your ethnic  heritage, cultural identity, values, and assumptions and analyze their  impact on the provision of culturally competent services.

Write a 2-page paper outlining how you define yourself culturally. If you recall from Module 1,  you were asked to reflect on how the person you are today has been  influenced by your group affiliations. You can include components of  that discussion in this assignment although you will certainly need to  substantially expand on what you wrote in Module 1. In  fact, you will need to indicate your ethnicity, race, gender, religion,  language, and age and discuss how each of these has contributed to who  you are today. You will also need to think critically about which of  these factors is the most important to you (i.e., on which factor do you  base your decisions, values, and opinions?) and which is the least  important to you. You will be asked to apply what you have learned so  far (you can do this by incorporating content from scholarly sources) to  what you write.

Tasks:

Write a 2-page paper outlining how you define yourself culturally.  This can be an expansion of the discussion that you posted in Module 1 with content added from what you have learned in the course so far.

• Indicate your ethnicity, race, gender, religion, language, and age  and discuss how each of these has contributed to who you are today. You  may discuss these in terms of where you are at present (e.g., what  religion you currently follow), and, if you wish, you can include  information from when you were younger (e.g., what religion you were  raised with).
• Explain which of these factors is the most important and which is  the least important to you and share why you believe this to be the  case.