Exam Content Cultural competence is the ability to respect differences in values

Exam Content
Cultural competence is the ability to respect differences in values, beliefs, and other cultural factors in individuals with different backgrounds and cultures. Improving cultural competence can be thought of as a lifelong journey.

Your independent, nonprofit news organization is asking each of its writers to share a personal essay about their own culture on their website. The organization hopes this will help readers identify with individual writers and share their own explorations of their culture. Through this discussion, the news organization hopes to expand the cultural competence of its writers and readers.

Write a 700- to 1,050-word personal essay that addresses how culture has impacted you in at least 4 of the following areas. Each area/concept you choose to write about should include a cited definition. Failure to include cited work will greatly impact your grade, so please make the effort:

Cognition
Perspectives of human development
Morality
Social and familial relationships
Gender constructs
Expression of emotion
Health
Mental illness

For each area, include the following:
Describe the part of your culture relevant to each of the 4 chosen areas.
Examine how your culture has impacted your personal development in each of the 4 chosen areas.
Analyze how your culture has impacted your own explicit and implicit multiculturalism.
Analyze how your culture has impacted you overall.

Include a minimum of 1 reference on a reference page.