Cultural Competence Continuum Of Cultural Destructiveness Analysis

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This text falls on the Cultural Competence Continuum of Cultural destructiveness, due to its racist and sexism context. From the beginning, the authors address the black culture as a culture that is destructive, abusive, insensitive, negative, damaging, poor and with no moral values. By the author writing a story to simply amuse her little girls that belittle not just the black community, but specifically black little girls who perhaps was the same age as her own girls are destructive and shameful. The author used a children’s book to project a false image of black children’s, black women and the entire black culture. In the text little Mingo had no father or mother, the author did not include not even one of her parents in the story