Reflective Writing on Racism and Cultural Biasness in Healthcare

Running head: RACISM
RACISM
Name of the student:
Name of the university:
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Gibb’s reflection:
Description:
I am a Nepalese individual who came to the nation of Australia to develop my
professional life in healthcare. From the very childhood, I had mixed up with different cultures
and races in my country. I am a Hindu by religion and I have handled my relationships with
other castes and cultures of our nation successfully. However, after coming to Australia I have
developed cultural biasness against the native people of the nation. This was mainly because I
had the societal influence on me where people surrounding me made racist comments on the
native people. They used to discuss their stereotypes on such people that also made me inculcate
similar stereotypes. Therefore, I had developed cultural biasness, prejudices of racism on the
aboriginals even without knowing their backgrounds in details. I did not have any idea about
their cultural knowledge, preferences and tradition. However, after reading the aboriginal unit, I
came to understand that my prejudices and racism was baseless. I came to realize that the native
people are exposed to racism for many centuries and I was a contributor to their suffering as I
was prejudiced and participated in racism. The unit taught me about the history of colonization
and the ways healthcare professionals can help them. Therefore, the unit was very significant for
developing my care plan for them in a culturally safe manner.
Feeling:
However, the knowledge that I received from the aboriginal unit made me develop a
good amount of knowledge about the history of the native people. This helped me to overcome
my racist feeling. I also felt bad for them as they had been exploited and tortured for many years.
I was feeling guilty that without knowing the history I was also being racist against them. I was

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blessed that this unit saved me from providing culturally incompetent practice to them. I have
decided that I would advocate about the racism issues faced by them so that the authorities of the
government can take active part in making the society free from stigmatization and
discrimination. I would help them to get easier access to healthcare an try my best to provide
them empathetic and compassionate services in healthcare.
Evaluation:
When I went through the study materials as well as the lectures of the aboriginal unit in
the university, I came to develop huge knowledge, skills, and knowledge about the Racism faced
by them. This unit helped me to evaluate the mistakes I had made and this was the best thing
about the aboriginal unit. The education that I received helped me to realize that I need to work
on my cultural knowledge about the native people so that I can provide the best care and help
them lead better quality life. This unit taught me that racism also called racialism is any action,
practice or belief that reflects the worldview where people believe on the ideology that humans
are divided into exclusive but separate entities called races. They believe that there is a casual
link between the inherited physical traits and traits of intellect, morality and personality (Truong
et al., 2017). Some of the races are always considered superior than others who are in turn seem
to be engaged in discriminating the other races who suffer from lack of various advantages of
daily lives. Aboriginals and Torres Islanders are exposed to racism from a long period.
Researchers have found the connection of racism faced by them with the ill health they
experience in the nation of Australia (McGough et al., 2018). They face inequality in accessing
to different societal resources such as education, employment, housing as well as medical care.
Therefore, I would try best to make healthcare access easier for them and would instruct my
fellow mates to overcome stereotypes and provide them culturally safe care. Stereotypes affect