I wish I could provide a glimpse of the contemporary paradigm about cultural sensitivity and how it represents itself in our everyday life. Every time I experience or witness a cross-cultural clash, I am struck by the lack of cultural openness about one another's differences without the background of cultural stereotypes. I am sure many experienced these questions include, "where are you from? What do you do for work? What brought you to the United States? Do you have an accent or being in that heated, finger-pointing, judgemental, and sharp comments through conversations if you dare to ask questions?
Moreover, working within a hierarchy system, not a horizontal system where your position determines the limits of any dialogue, and written up for asking questions or asking for more information for better understanding. Or felt attacked, disrespected, or even unheard, and wrapped in this stereotype cultural assessment and judgment. So wrapped in the stories are being told about Easter- Western and non-Western cultures. Reports to form fixed persistent opinions about those who do not come from the same linear type of cultures addressed as westernized cultures by means, internal locus of control, individualistic, open to experiment, protected by the law, and mainly including specific regions of the world. Hence, the judgment is based on which part of the world the individual oblong, religion, political, and sociocultural contexts. Here, the individual is predisposed to stereotype types of living, behaving, thinking, and acting, the sociopsychological patterns that are followed to repeat the same outcomes for the benefit of keeping the same dynamics that shaped institutions, communities, and nations for centuries. Therefore, cultural clashes keep happening, and what persists exists. The individual may practice their native customs and traditions, business, education, and marriage within their own tribe, which is criticized from the Western point of view. However, when it comes to legal regulations and rules, the field of western culture understands its foundation to follow the law regarding cultural disputes. Meanwhile, Eastern- cultures feel entitled to certain judgments and how things should go. Some Easterns take the hermit mode approach, immerse themselves in understanding the western laws and get higher in their education to make it their competitive merit within the hierarchical cultural dynamics.
The approach takes lots of effort, sacrifices, and isolation from the real world, and they are focused on competing with the Western mindset. Even though this approach adds to the community's individualistic contributions, having well-educating individuals adds to the overall nation's productivity and economy. Yet, on the tribe level, the efforts are not enough. The herd still faces cultural clashes, as not everyone is equipped to take this hard road of immersion. Hence, the herd needs to be educated and use their simple language. A language that speaks to their way of expressing their distress and mental oppression. The language that understands their emotional, social, cultural, and political overwhelm and maneuvers through the ups and down within a culture that is foreign to them. Where everyone feels entitled to where they come from, even if they physically do not live there anymore. Yes, individuals can work, make money, have a family, and have a harmonious or conflicting social network. In both, the rooting process in law and regulations still persists. The entitlement process increases when the individual is surrounded by a conflicting network dynamic. Since this individual does not align with the in-group dynamic, experiences will show them as troublemakers, trouble seekers, in trouble with the law, doesn't respect the rule or follow them, perpetrators, can't trust them, and all negative connotation about their culture of origin follow them wherever they go.
Even though these cultural clashes are not allowed to be discussed openly with the individual due to cultural sensitivity rule, they will enable the scenario of negative connotations about specific groups and cultures to persist. Which creates the paradigm of cultural syndromes. Where the inner core of cultural understanding is dropped from the equation. And the materialistic approach is what is measured. The seen, the obvious, the declared, the learned, the transferrable stereotypical system to be applied when cultural clash shows up in the scene. Suppose any person on earth was born acknowledgeable of their nation's laws and regulations biologically. Therefore, there is no need for the foundation of the institutional constitutions, legislative and executive bodies that write, rewrite, modify, remodify, create, recreate, talk, listen, filter, and form each rule human beings come across. It is a continuum process of reforming institutions to protect the subject's rights with the mind of cultural diversity and coping with the new state of being. Suppose the individual lack Psychosociocultural education in interacting with human beings, their cultural clashes persist, discrimination, biases, delusional thinking, and injustice continues. In that case, stereotypical theories remain, and the same outcomes will show up, the same problems, the same hierarchy of communications, the same walking on the eggshell to express your voice where stereotypes and fixed approaches exist, and getting you nowhere but more of cultural clashes. The need for cultural openness to educate, inform, and show evidence is the hope for a healed culture from generational stereotypical theories. By. ME "The Old Ancient woman."
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