{"id":1505,"date":"2017-11-02T04:51:24","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T04:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/course.oeru.org\/inda104\/?page_id=1505"},"modified":"2017-11-02T04:51:24","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T04:51:24","slug":"everyone-is-a-cultural-being","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/inda104\/learning-pathways\/strategies-and-protocols-for-effective-engagement-with-indigenous-australian-peoples\/everyone-is-a-cultural-being\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyone is a Cultural Being"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\" class=\"mw-body container\" role=\"main\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<div class=\"panel\">\n<div class=\"panel-body\">\n<div id=\"bodyContent\">\n<div id=\"mw-content-text\" lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"mw-content-ltr\"><div class=\"panel iDevice\">\n\t<div class=\"panel-heading idevice-heading\">\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"pedagogicalicon\" alt=\"key point\" src=\"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/inda104\/wp-content\/themes\/oeru_course\/idevices\/Icon_key_points.png\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<h2>Key Idea<\/h2>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"panel-body\">\n\t\t<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><i>Culture is the learned behaviours, values, beliefs and products that are shared by a group. <\/i>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"panel iDevice\">\n\t<div class=\"panel-heading idevice-heading\">\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"pedagogicalicon\" alt=\"reflection\" src=\"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/inda104\/wp-content\/themes\/oeru_course\/idevices\/Icon_reflection.png\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<h2>Personal Reflection<\/h2>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"panel-body\">\n\t\t<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Have you ever travelled to a foreign country?\n<\/li>\n<li> What was your experience of cultural difference?\n<\/li>\n<li> How did you go as a member of a \u2018minority\u2019?\n<\/li>\n<li> What would it be like to be Australian yet every time you left your house it was like being in a foreign country?\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"thumb tright\">\n<div class=\"thumbinner thumbnail\" style=\"width:302px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/WikiEducator.org\/File:Melbourne_Capt_Cooks_Cottage_-_outer00.jpg\" class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/\/WikiEducator.org\/images\/thumb\/0\/0a\/Melbourne_Capt_Cooks_Cottage_-_outer00.jpg\/300px-Melbourne_Capt_Cooks_Cottage_-_outer00.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"272\" class=\"thumbimage img-responsive\"><\/a>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"thumbcaption\">Cook&#8217;s Cottage, Fitzroy Gardens.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>If you are a member of the mainstream society it can be hard to identify your own culture as it is just how you, and everyone you know, \u2018normally lives\u2019. If you are not part of the mainstream culture, cultural differences can be very easy to see. Humans are cultural beings. Indeed, some philosophers consider that it is culture that sets humans apart from \u2018other animals\u2019 (though this is debated by others who say that some animals have culture too).<\/p>\n<p>\nCulture dictates a lot of things about our lives:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> How far away you stand from someone you\u2019re talking to;\n<\/li>\n<li> What words you use to whom;\n<\/li>\n<li> What clothes you wear;\n<\/li>\n<li> What career expectations you might have\/ society might have for you;\n<\/li>\n<li> What style of accommodation you live in;\n<\/li>\n<li> What success looks like;\n<\/li>\n<li> How you think about things;\n<\/li>\n<li> Who you can form a family relationship with.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nInteracting with people who have a different cultural background to your own requires a level of awareness about cultural perspectives that may be similar to, or different from, your own. When it comes to work, you will need to consider your own cultural background, the cultural backgrounds of the people you work with as colleagues and as \u2018clients\u2019, and the culture of the profession you work for as well. Teachers obviously need to be aware of their students\u2019 cultural backgrounds. To be culturally competent, you are not only <i>aware<\/i> of potential differences and what these mean for how people behave and see the world, but you also have a suite of professional skills you can use to effectively work with people from different cultural backgrounds. We won\u2019t cover these skills in this module as you will study this further at a later stage in your particular courses. However, cultural competence it is a foundational idea for working effectively with Indigenous people and communities.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCPU time usage: 0.097 seconds\nReal time usage: 2.115 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 225\/1000000\nPreprocessor generated node count: 879\/1000000\nPost\u2010expand include size: 7992\/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 4835\/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 7\/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0\/100\n--><\/p>\n<p><!-- Saved in parser cache with key wikiedu-mw_:pcache:idhash:169123-0!*!*!*!*!2!* and timestamp 20171102045119 and revision id 972120\n -->\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"visualClear\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<ul class=\"pager\">\n<li class=\"previous\">\n            <a href=\"\/inda104\/learning-pathways\/strategies-and-protocols-for-effective-engagement-with-indigenous-australian-peoples\/overview\">\u2190 Previous<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n<li class=\"next\">\n            <a href=\"\/inda104\/learning-pathways\/strategies-and-protocols-for-effective-engagement-with-indigenous-australian-peoples\/why-is-cultural-competence-important\">Next \u2192<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<footer>\n<br \/>\n<\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2190 Previous Next \u2192<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1501,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1505","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/inda104\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/inda104\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/inda104\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/inda104\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/inda104\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/inda104\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1506,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/inda104\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1505\/revisions\/1506"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/inda104\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/inda104\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}