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Korean American Culture

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Cultural Analysis Korean Americans America is filled with increasing diversity, though this may bring an abundance of possibilities through interacting with other ethnic groups, it also comes with many problems. These problems are particularly for those who are in the health care system whether you are a health care provider, social worker or nurse. The challenge at hand is about cultural competence. Cultural competence is the ability to adequately provide the linguistic and ethical needs of your patient. (Horevitz et al) (2013) Explore the many benefits of cultural competence and how the health care system can alleviate many problem such as disparities when they have cultural awareness. A way that providers can overcome cultural barriers is by simply become knowledgeable about the cultural group the patient belongs to. When a health care system requires for their members to learn about the values, beliefs and history of several cultures they will not only have an appreciation and respect for those cultures, but have awareness of how important it is to have cultural competence. (Horevitz et al) (2013) Koreans originally immigrated to the United States and settled in Hawaii. They soon traveled elsewhere because of harsh work conditions.The moved to other cities, establishing businesses and decent lives for themselves in the United States.Like …show more content…

That being said, in a health care setting Asian Americans are most likely unwilling to show strong emotion, grief, or pain due to their family and cultural values. Medical professionals often find the unemotional body language of Asian people difficult to

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