Journal Assignment 4
At the beginning of the semester, you were asked the following questions:
Refer to Figure 1.1 on page 19 of your textbook. Which stage do you consider yourself? Why?
Do you believe anyone can be totally culturally grounded? Why or why not?
Reflect on what you have learned this semester and answer the questions above in addition to the following question:
Have you move from your the first stage you identified?
This was my initial response in the beginning of class on how i answered this question:
The stage I believe I am in, would be awareness. Even writing my introduction post and replying to another classmate, I stated that my husband has Indian in his family. While I wrote that, I was unsure if I was even using the term correctly and hoping I didn’t offend anyone.
I stand with my view on awareness as I can understand that everyone has different beliefs, values, and morals. I respect and recognize that everyone has different views and opinions. I am never the one to go thoroughly in depth in a conversation and I do not study other cultures, so I tend to not speak on other cultures to not be disrespectful in things that may become offensive. I find it similar to being in someone else’s home. I don’t take my shoes off in my own home, but if I go to someone else’s house and they ask me to take my shoes off, I respect that and I don’t ask why.
In our reading, it talks about being a social worker in a culturally diverse community. When the book talks about being culturally grounded, I interpret it as saying that social worker completely immerses themselves into their clients backgrounds and community, really getting to know them. According to Marsiglia, F. F.(2021), “In summary, being a culturally grounded practitioner means moving beyond awareness by acquiring new knowledge and developing new attitudes and behaviors by practicing cultural humility”(p. 27).
I am torn on this question about being culturally grounded, because I think a person can totally immerse themselves into awareness, values, and skills, which at the very end of chapter 1 in our books, our definition of cultural grounded social work is this: The combination and application of cultural awareness, cultural competency, and cultural humility to practicing social work. So in some ways, I think a person can be culturally grounded by getting to know about the culture, being immersed in it, studying it, learning from that culture, but another side of me thinks a person can’t be grounded unless born into that culture.
Tracy
The attachment is the diagram she is talking about from our book. Thank you
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