Cultural Competence and Indigenous Australians: Reflection on Way of Being Principles

IKC101 FIRST NATIONS
FOUNDATIONS KNOWING
RELATING AND
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
PART A...........................................................................................................................................3
PART B............................................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Cultural competence refers to the abilities to understand and interact with different cultural
background people, it is also known as intercultural competence (Qin & Chaimongkol, 2021).
Cultural competence that leads to affective and behavioural skills which helps in communicating
with the people in an efficient manner. Following report will cover the topic reflecting on a way
of being principles of cultural competence. It will cover the concept like about indigenous
Australians and their history, it will also cover the information over article that is based on
indigenous people.
MAIN BODY
PART A
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are the indigenous people of Australia, generally they
consist of the several other groups which have their own different sets of languages and cultural
aspects. they lived in Australia from longer time before British colonisation (Dillard & et.al
2021). It is found that impact of cultural incompetence over the people is vulnerable especially
for the aboriginal and Torres strait Islanders, about 97 percent of Aboriginal people are
experiencing racism. Additionally, it is said that average aboriginal men live 10.6 years lesser as
compared with other Australian men and for aboriginal women they live 9.5 years lesser than
Australian women.
I came to know about it within the institutional setting where me and my peers were
aiming to learn about the cultural competence. I come across many facts that who are aboriginals
and what problems they usually face in terms of discrimination and other things. I understand
that within an Australian curriculum now things have been changing where major concern is
towards Torres islanders and Aboriginals. Where Australian government is committing to
accomplish the better outcomes for indigenous people and they are also working with the states
and territories for ensuring the mainstream educational policies that will contribute for the
improvement of outcomes for all students.
I know that culture of Australia is primarily a western culture that is mainly influenced by
Britain but also derived by unique geography of country and the cultural inputs about aboriginal,
Torres Islanders and other Australian citizens. Indigenous population emigrated in continent
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