Multicultural Issues in Human Services Culture comprises things unique to a group, like their language, religion, food, social norms, music, and the arts. Humans have certain biological traits that allow societies to have various backgrounds. People can pass on their traditions and beliefs as a culture. People in the community create and maintain a culture, and society preserves and perpetuates that culture. Defining Culture In general, “culture” refers to the social norms, institutions, and behaviors of human societies and the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, conventions, and habits of those who belong to these groups. However, knowing that culture is notoriously difficult to define is significant. Culture is what Chatraw and Prior mean …show more content…
To understand a culture, one must understand how institutions work and operate and where their power lies. Understanding institutions’ nature, work, and energy is necessary to learn about a culture. Similarly, sociologists believe that culture is the product of elite organizations (Chatraw & Prior, 2019). Therefore, people learn something about their culture by teaching their children specific issues or watching how they think a child should be raised. However, people of posterity believe that children learn from their peers through peer group play, traditions passed down orally, customs, rituals like a bar mitzvah, and ceremonies like weddings. However, this author also argues about avoiding cultural captivity from a Christian worldview. According to this author, it is necessary to reflect on what it is (Chatraw & Prior, 2019). But based on what I know about my traditions and rituals and what I have learned about them, I belong to the Puerto Rican community. Culture has a legacy system passed down from generation to generation. This way of thinking has also helped keep the country’s rich history alive by giving it a sense of cultural identity. Spanish and English are the official languages, and approximately 90% and 10% speak both. The Taino language, which the indigenous population of Puerto Rico used before Spanish, changed how people …show more content…
Since chaplaincy requires more than just a textbook but real-life experience, while the enemy of humanity held me in that spiritual darkness, God used it for His glory esoterically. Today, I help people through their journeys by integrating healing and spiritual awakening. Returning to my father is the irony; I transformed into him with the faith he attacked me with so long ago. Now, I recognize the man who had grafted me onto that olive twig of Christianity and religious studies. In grafting, plants grow as one when they join two or more tissues. It is not just a physical process but also, for me, a spiritual one. My father’s faith had grafted me onto the glorious spirit of God. Another critical point is that I joined the Pentecostal church (culture) in 1990. In the center of the South Bronx, I found a Spanish Pentecostal church. Although there are various denominations, I prefer Pentecostalism. This Protestant Christian tradition believes that the Holy Spirit manifests itself uniquely and powerfully and reflects the early church period, as recorded in Acts 2. In this context, modern-day Pentecostals seek to emulate the early church experience. However, even though I follow those dogmas, I believe in Christ since belief is the possibility of something being