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Cultural DiversityLaw Enforcement I

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Cultural Diversity

Cultural Diversity –differences in age, ethnic heritage, gender, physical ability/qualities, and sexual orientation

Cultural Diversity – Tips for communicating with cultural awareness Video

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Key Terms

Culture: an integrated pattern of learned human behavior traits including thoughts, communication, actions, beliefs, and values; the institutions of an ethnic, religious, or social group; a body of learned beliefs, traditions, principles, and guides for behavior that are shared among members of a particular group

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Key Terms (continued)

Ethnicity: sharing a strong sense of identity with a particular religious, racial, or social group

Race: a biological concept that defines groups of human beings based on a set of genetic characteristics 5



Cultural sensitivity: the ability to be open to learning about and acceptance of different cultural groups

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Racism: a belief that racial differences produce an inherent superiority in a particular race

Stereotypes: a generalization of characteristics that is applied to all members of a cultural group

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Internalized oppression: a subconscious belief in negative stereotypes about a group that results in an attempt to fulfill those stereotypes and a projection of those stereotypes onto the members of that group

Heterosexism: a belief in the inherent superiority of heterosexuality over all other patterns and thereby the right to dominance

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Discrimination: to make a difference in treatment on a basis other than individual character

Prejudice: an attitude, opinion, or feeling formed without adequate prior knowledge, thought, or reason

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Multiculturalism: the recognition and acknowledgement that society is pluralistic. In addition to the dominant culture, there are many other cultures based around ethnicity, sexual orientation, geography, religion, gender, and class

Ethnocentrism: to judge other cultures by the standards of one’s own, and beyond that, to see one’s own standards as the true universal way and the other culture in a negative way

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Sexism: the belief in the inherent superiority of one sex (gender) over the other and thereby the right to dominance

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Dimensions of Culture

Primary Dimensions – there are five dimensions that form the core of cultural identity. Social scientists believe that NONE of these dimensions can be changed. AgeGenderPhysical abilities/qualitiesRaceSexual orientation

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Dimensions of Culture (continued)

Secondary Dimensions of culture can be alteredEducational backgroundGeographic locationIncomeMarital statusParental statusReligious beliefsWork experience

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Theories of Prejudice

Cultural Transmission TheoryStereotypes and social distance

Children are taught stereotypesSocial distance: the desired distance

that their group sets on contact with other groups. Social distance begins when certain traits are identified as “good” or “bad” and then linked with stereotypes or particular groups

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Theories of Prejudice (continued)

Personality TheoryFrustration and aggression

Asserts that social frustration caused by struggles for power within society causes aggression by members of one social group against members of another group

Social scapegoat: lower level of power structure

Cognitive dissonance: thoughts (social/moral) that sharply conflict with each other 15


Theories of Prejudice (continued)

Group Identification TheoryEthnocentrism causes people to

gather in groups that view outside groups as different and inferiorStrong communities through familial

and social ties based on intimacyEthnocentrism causes prejudice

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Theories of Discrimination

How can discrimination cause prejudice? Children learn to discriminate

before they learn to be prejudicedPreexisting discrimination can

create a “vicious circle” of discrimination

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Theories of Discrimination (continued)

Situational Pressure TheoryPeople’s actions under pressure in

particular situations do not always match their professed beliefs and attitudes

The gap between belief and action is called creed/deed discrepancy

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Group Gains TheoryDominant social groups

discriminate against subordinate groups because the individual members of the dominant groups enjoy concrete gain as a result

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Institutional Structure TheorySteady decline in the living

standards of racial and ethnic minorities

Shame combined with prejudice results in discrimination

Segregated schools/neighborhoods emerge

Built into the structure of society

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Culture vs. Subculture

Culture: the sum total of the learned behavioral traits, values, beliefs, language, laws, and technology characteristics of the members of a particular society

Cultural relativity: belief that no culture can be judged by the standards of another and that every culture must be approached on its own terms

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Culture vs. Subculture (continued)

Subcultures: small groups of people within a society whose values differ from those of the majority

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Culture vs. Subculture (continued)

Counter-Culture: made of subcultures that sharply challenge and reject some of the norms and expectations of the dominant culture

Contracultures: social groups that have developed values and models of behaviors which are in continual conflict with prevailing culture 23

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Resources North Texas Council of Governments (Cultural Sensitivity Course)

http://www.nctcog.org/ Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education

(TCLEOSE) http://www.tcleose.state.tx.us/ Arlington Police Academy

http://www.arlingtonpd.org/index.asp?nextpg=academy/default.htm 0887441858, Nature of Communication Disorders in Culturally and

Linguistically Diverse Populations, O.L. Taylor, San Diego, CA: College-Hill Press, 1986

Do an Internet search for the following: 80's Trailers - "The Breakfast Club" (1985)

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http://www.nctcog.org/

http://www.tcleose.state.tx.us/

http://www.arlingtonpd.org/index.asp?nextpg=academy/default.htm

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