Discussion: Defining Culturalism NSG 451
Discussion: Defining Culturalism NSG 451
Defining Culturalism
Nurse leaders must work with staff to foster respect for
varied lifestyles. Showing respect to all patients and colleagues, irrespective
of their cultural differences, tells staff that differences are valuable. This
exercise is designed to introduce key principles nurse leaders must address in
leading and managing diverse groups.
Use Google Scholar™, Leading and Managing in Nursing, or the
University Library to define multiculturalism, cross-culturalism, and
transculturalism.
Write a 175-word summary explaining the definitions in your
own words and give an example of applying each term to a leadership situation.
For example, think of a time in your practice when you, as a leader, or your
leader used multiculturalism to promote inclusion among colleagues or patients.
Local campus students: Prepare to present and discuss your
summary in the next class meeting.
Online students: Post your summary and respond to at least
one classmate’s post.
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The controversy on multiculturalism has changed the political fronts. The Left defends respect for minority cultures while the Right stands guard over the national culture. But these two fronts merely constitute two variants of a culturalist ideology, argue Jens-Martin Eriksen and Frederik Stjernfelt.
Culturalism is the idea that individuals are determined by their culture, that these cultures form closed, organic wholes, and that the individual is unable to leave his or her own culture but rather can only realise him or herself within it. Culturalism also maintains that cultures have a claim to special rights and protections – even if at the same time they violate individual rights.
The culturalism of today, in which culture becomes a political ideology, thrives on both the Left and the Right. Most well known is leftwing multiculturalism, which has a radical, anti-democratic variant as well as one that suggests that it is possible to harmonize multiculturalism and (social-) liberal views. However, multiculturalism can also exist in forms that belong to the far Right, such as the French concepts of ethnopluralism, the idea that all cultures have the right to autonomy as long as each remains in its own territory. This approach results in political conclusions to the effect that immigrants must either allow themselves to be assimilated lock, stock and barrel, including everything from their religion down to their cuisine, or else return to their original native countries (assuming that such countries exist).