Concept of Culture Competency: History and Culture of Indigenous Australian

Running head: HISTORY AND CULTURE OF INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIAN
CONCEPT OF CULTURE COMPETENCY: HISTORY AND CULTURE OF INDIGENOUS
AUSTRALIAN
Name of Student:
Name of University:
Author’s Note:

1HISTORY AND CULTURE OF INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIAN
Cultural competence is regarded as the attitude and behavior of people they show towards
other fellow who is culturally diverged from them (Loftin et al.,2013). People can be of different
cultural background, having various language, beliefs, thoughts and ethnicity (Topcu & Eroglu,
2017). Thus, cultural competence is treated as skill of working professionally with people no
matter from where they belong. Many health sector and professions in field of human service are
ongoing to include the activity of cultural competence in their work and starts to give training to
worker to become culturally competent.
I believe that becoming culturally competent is not a matter of one-day class. For this one
have to go with the flow, as developing an attitude of culturally competent is an ongoing process
(Isaacson, 2014). I place myself at stage of cultural knowledge where I know about different
sorts of culture present and how this can play a role in molding shape of health behavior. I am
not an incompetent person however; I need to go with the course to become culturally proficient.
I have to understand the effect of cultural behavior, its social application in health care and
practice.
I do not have a deep knowledge about the indigenous people of Australia. Though I am
accustomed with some of the facts about their culture and history. I knew that they came into
existence some 65000 year ago (Malaspinas et al., 2016). However, I am not aware about
origination of first man who came in southern continent. Before British colonization, it was
believed that Australia was populated with over 750,000 indigenous people (Hollinsworth,
2016). Regarding culture of indigenous Australia, they have two type of culture- Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander (Fowler, 2013). They have spiritual believe and love concerning their land.
They were in music, arts and love hunting, thus they follow a tribal life. I did not have any
confirmed idea about the contemporary history of Australia. Some people say that in the year