Cultural Competence Case Study: Personal Reflection and Analysis

This case study explores the author's cultural background, highlighting its benefits to others, its influence on daily life, and feedback received from others. The author identifies hard work and cultural festivities as key benefits, emphasizing their positive impact on self-identity and social interaction. The study details how the author's cultural norms, such as family togetherness, influence communication and work habits, leading to effective interactions and knowledge acquisition. The case study also includes comments from others regarding the author's culture, addressing perceptions of communication style and family structure. The conclusion emphasizes the unique aspects of each culture and its profound impact on daily life, acknowledging that differing cultural perspectives can lead to varied interpretations and responses.

Cultural competence

Case Study 2

Table of contents
 Introduction
 What benefits one’s culture bring to others
 Influence of culture in daily life
 Comments received from people
 Conclusion

Introduction
 This presentation is about my cultural background.
 It covers the various aspects of it like what benefit it will bring to others from different
culture.
 It also provides an insight about how culture influences me in everyday life along with
some experience.
 At last, the comments being received from others about my culture.

What benefits one’s culture bring to others
 I believe that for me my culture is being hardworking and along with
that I prefer the some of the family norms that are part of my culture
which is gathering together on cultural festivities.
 These two activities are very essential and valuable for every person
belonging to any other culture. It has a huge influence over our self-
identity and self-dimension as we get to know ourselves even better.

Cont..
 Therefore, these two things, which is being, hardworking and getting
involved in the cultural festivities of my culture will also be
advantageous for the others.
 My culture will encourage others to interact with each other, greeting
one another on special occasion, celebrating together.
 This will help in building up of knowledge and understanding and will
also expand our thinking process.

Cont..
 While, the hard work lead to the way of achieving
something in life which can be happy and healthy
family. Therefore, hard work always results into better
result.

Influence of culture in daily life
 The culture that I am exposed to has a huge influence over in my
everyday life. In my family everyone stays together this influenced me
also to remain in a group of people.
 I feel like talking to everyone; therefore, it becomes difficult for me to
remain quiet for sometimes. I start feel like lonely.

Cont..
 In terms of work, my culture has helped in
effectively interacting and communicating
with the people which has helped me in
gaining more knowledge and exposure

Cont..
 For example, I had attended a party where no one knows me and
my family introduced me to someone and through that person I
got be know many people and because of my effective
communication skills I was able to easily involved with them.

Cont..
 Another example is that I have invested much of my time working
really hard for giving better life to my family and this is because my
family has taught me the important life lessons which cannot be made
understand in the school.
 Thus, it has positively influenced my life.

Comments received from people
There are two things that people told me about my culture which are stated below.
 We used to talk every much and sometimes even very loudly. They think we are
shouting rather than talking. They thought it to be like this may be because they
are from different culture.
 We leave in a joint family and works together jointly; this makes everyone feel
that lot of people lives in the house and makes them feel congested and suffocated.
As other lives only with their parents.
 So, I am used to hear new things every now there.

Conclusion
 It can be concluded that there is always a plus point in a culture which
differentiate it from another and this is completely based on one’s
perspective.
 Our culture always has its influence over or daily life which one may not
even notice.
 One culture differs from another which makes it difficult for some people
to understand it therefore, they have different response to different
cultures.