Examine Your Barriers to Cultural Competence

1. Respond to the prompts below in full sentences. Be sure to use standard English grammar and spelling:

• Assess your own barriers to cultural competence.
  • Have you overcome these? If not, how do you plan to overcome them?
  • If you do not have barriers, why do you think you do not have them?

• Answer preview

• Globalization has made it possible for people from different cultures to interact with each other easily. As such, cultural competence is both necessary and integral in one’s personal and professional lives. Among the barriers to cultural competence that I identified in my self-evaluation is ethnocentrism. Betancourt, Green, Carrillo & Owusu Ananeh-Firempong (2016), note that ethnocentrism tends to evaluate people’s cultures…

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