Personal bias
What my own understanding of bias is to prejudice or unfair. This means that I would like someone or something just because of whom or what they are. An example of being bias could be the likeness of one race or culture over another, not having a reason for not liking the other culture. I do not like certain customs of certain cultures. The idea of going through an initiation strikes me as being different and strange, like for me it might not serve a purpose. Although these rituals might not serve a purpose for me personally it might be a great honour for people from that specific culture. I have to learn and come to terms with the fact that things that I don’t or may not understand may not mean that it is wrong or unjustified.
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It is evident that if I believe in something specific then I’d behave or carry out an action in a certain way. This personal value system guides me to determine what is important to me. If you have a personal value system, then it would also shape who and what you are, this system would allow you to act in certain ways as well.
Without value one can make hasty and rash decisions without thinking it through (www.essentiallifeskills.net). Making these impulsive decisions could in turn have dire consequences.
There are four stages of a person’s personal value system, including one’s personal values, spiritual values, family values and career
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Children would make friends without looking at outward appearances and if that is something that I can learn and understand then I will achieve more. Getting involved in community and volunteer work will expose me to many different cultures and races. Community work will give me the confidence to speak to different people who all experience different things throughout their lives. The volunteer work is a more in depth aspect because that means that I can encounter various races and cultures. This would then give me the opportunity to learn new things. Usually if one volunteers at an orphanage or home for kids, the organisers don’t classify the children, meaning that more than one culture is accepted. In order to gain an even more in depth understanding of cultural competence, one has to realise that race and culture go hand in
I’ve noticed many cultures that believe in rituals like this and will do what they have to in order to make sure they are carried out. If it wasn’t noticed by now Nacirema, is actually American spelled backwards. This article was written at the American culture through outside eyes. This is why this is so disturbing because the American culture is rarely ever looked at from someone else’s view point besides our own.
Some parents aim to include partially, if not all of the child’s birth culture into their household (Harf et al., 2015). While others, are not so keen and tend to favour bringing up the child completely into the culture of the adopted family (IBID). These different parenting practices, will ultimately influence the child’s future identity. Similarly, the cultural experiences of transracial adoptees are uniquely influenced by their adoption and their place within their own racial/ethnic groups and cultures (Baden et al., 2012).
It’s important to recognize one’s personal values when working in the field of Human Services because your values are a significant part of your beliefs. Views help you make the best choices as a Human Service Professional. Life decisions are determined by what you value most as a person. As a professional you should embrace diversity and the values of other people. Learning to do this is a process which takes time and you being willing to do so.
4.4 Bias According to the Florida Supreme Court Standing Committee on Fairness and Diversity (n.d.), bias is a point of view or even an attitude that colors judgment. It is an internal belief of one person and it can be called bias if it is acted out in a speech andhat the other people receive its impact. It is also a tendency to view things or people in a definite way.
Some strategies that can be used to enrich children’s understanding and respect for cultural identities within the services community may include: - • providing activities and opportunities that engage other cultures These activities could be a culture celebration for a day or week such as Chinese New Year, St Patrick’s Day, Christmas etc., where the children could come dressed up as something that represents that particular culture i.e. dragon, leppricon, Noah etc. and play games that originated from that culture, do drawings of things found in that culture or read books at story time that give information and embraces the culture. • engaging parents and families to discuss cultural practices.
Its important to promote a sense of belonging in the setting as when children grow up, they need to feel that they belong to the group, whether that group is their family, their culture, the community they live
Here at this child care we strongly feel and are committed in encouraging children and families from all social class, religion, race and disability to achieve his/her full potential. We are very aware of just how important it is to share awareness of diversity and cultural experiences to help others become aware of
This is because there are law requirements that protect someone in regards to human right act 1998, also health and social care act 2012 with alongside codes of practice for care workers, which this means care workers and health and social care should be based on a persons focused values in the interest in the client receiving care which makes them have a get better caring and feels dignity, Also to support to remain as independent as they can. , Person centred values also involves the person to be supported to access their rights, and also this means that ass well as providing anti-discrimination practices together and also promoting equal opportunity for the clients or individuals, it’s all for diverse staff who are involved in health and
Cultural competence is “the ability to communicate with, understand and effectively interact with people across cultures” (EYLF, 2015) Some legislation to keep in mind: • Belonging Being and Becoming The Early Years Learning Framework for Australia. - P. 16 Cultural Competence • Early Childhood Australia – Code of Ethics. Inclusivity and Cultural Responsiveness • The National Quality Standards – Relationships with children. Collaborative partnership with families and communities • Australian Human Rights Commission Act 1986 • Racial Discrimination Act 1975 • Anti-discrimination Act 1991 - OUR PHILISIOPHY
There are many concepts that underpin discrimination and many theories to draw from this paper will detail and explore the definitions, concepts, and theories such as Stereotyping, Social Identity Theory, and Conflict Theory which are all to the fore in prejudice and discrimination. It will seek to examine current research and suggest strategies based on best practice and evidence to combat discrimination and prejudice within organisations to allow for a healthy productive workforce. Prejudice is an unjustified or incorrect negative attitude in the direction of an individual based exclusively on the individual’s affiliation with a social group, a prejudiced person might not act on their attitude.
Unit 1: Activity 2: Assignment 2: Journal As an individual amongst many other students, we all have our own ideas and opinions. This is what makes us different from each other and also similar in many cases. With the diversity of opinions they often depict our relationship with others and who we are compatible with. From my experience, having a different opinion about something out of the majority is not necessarily a negative thing. The people I usually hang out with are understanding and may oppose my opinion with other reasoning why my opinion may be incorrect or not as good.
-This is because culture is an important part of a child’s identity therefore enabling children to feel a healthy sense of who they are in relation to their culture. If you have understanding and respect for their culture you can help promote their beliefs and attitudes towards themselves in accepting their own culture as ok, respecting their culture and experiencing it as making a positive contribution to our community (Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, 2010, p. 21). -it will assist in building strong partnerships with families based on trust where they feel they belong and contribute to the early childhood community and beyond too- this will empower them in their parenting and help them feel at ease with the type
Values and Ethnics The NASW code of ethics core social work values is heavily active until this day. The code of ethnic its self is a set of guidelines for the ethnically practice of social work. The core value found in the code of ethics is Social justice, service integrity, importance of human relationship, dignity and worth, and competence. This code of ethics reflexes the relationship of the worker to the client and the worker. These codes of ethnic are placed to improve and establish rules and boundaries from social workers to clients and the importance of the ethnical value its place for the helping of the social worker.
Bias is prejudice about someone or something which has been created based on incomplete information. More often bias has a negative effect as it affects other people, our way of thinking that could be driven into stereotypes frame. Every day we face with a huge number of biases and some of us even do not know about the existence of them. If it gets to that point when something suffers from it, people need to overcome biases. There are a lot of examples of biases in our world.
The two important values that I have learnt are the independence and the respect. I learnt these two values since my childhood. One of the values is the independence. Independence means that you can support yourself without owning or depending on yourself concerned with livelihood or studying. You can make decision of your life without being controlled by the others.