Responding to Diversity Global Perspective Theory 2022

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Responding to Diversity Global Perspective
Intersectionality
It is challenging to find a word in American traditionalism more hated than “Intersectionality.”
From the conservative perspective, Intersectionality means “discriminatory treatment and
standards with the minority.” This word was initially introduced by Professor Kimberlé
Crenshaw in 1989 to define the gender, race, class, ethnicity, and other individualistic attributes
as “intersect” (Garcia et al., 2015). It identifies how different features of political and social
discrimination can overlap with gender. Discrimination for Intersectionality is prevalent
throughout the world.
As I am Nepalese - Australian, a male nursing student, aged 30 years, and I am studying in a
very diverse environment. Intersectionality could have stopped me getting here, but fortunately,
this is not the case with me. Nepal is also a very different country. It is a multi-cultural, multi-
ethnic, multilingual and multi-religious nation, and therefore a secular state through democracy.
Nepal has a Hindu majority population with almost 82% of the total population, but the Nepalese
constitution guarantees the freedom of religion.
Several studies tend to agree to this theory; for example, women of minorities experience more
recurrent and unadorned sexual abuse and sexual harassment than White females. Many previous
studies have focused the Intersectionality upon Blacks and Whites, although just a few
researchers have included other ethnic minorities into their studies (Ghavami, and Peplau, 2013).
At the same time, Intersectionality has been studied and focused on common types of
Intersectionality. Recent researches on Intersectionality are mostly concentrated on gender, class,
and ethnicity. Furthermore, intersecting for culture, geography, spirituality, religion, and place
(Vega, & Colón-Berlingeri, 2016). I have chosen to integrate Intersectionality as a standard in

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my research as a way of understanding, thinking, and acting. An intersectionality paradigm
posits that peoples' experiences are instantaneously the product of their attitude towards their
identity, and their way of interaction with other people (Harrison, 2015).
According to my perspective, many factors influence and form cultures like cultural location,
institutional culture, professional culture, corporate culture, national culture, spiritual/religious,
family, gender, and sexual orientation. All of these factors exert an influence on people, how
they view one another with a cultural lens (Keynejad et al., 2018). Similarly. I believe that
several cultural factors impact the behavior of people while interacting with others. Also,
communication and treatment patterns are dependent on culture. The cultural aspect influence;
· How we behave and perform
· How we react in different situations
· How we solve problems and conflicts
Above all, I consider that our values also shape our behavior to respond in a particular way for
intentionality. People can better understand their beliefs and values in confronting with people
who have a different background. For example; working with a colleague from a different
country and race would be challenging. I think through that Beliefs and values are built and
learned in national culture, and they may be unconscious. As values diverge immensely
particularly crosswise national cultures. Different values lead to distinct behavior; the least
comprehensible behavior (Keynejad et al., 2018). Therefore, Diversity should be accepted,
regardless of the difference of custom and traditions of other culture (Ghavami, and Peplau,
2013).