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Overcoming Cultural Stereotypes: Video Analysis

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Becoming a future health professional, we must be aware of all the personal biases we have towards other patients or different ethnicities or races. It is very easy to fall into the trap and place a stereotype on a person just because of their race and then offend them in the process. Through the video, Overcoming Cultural Stereotypes, I learned that there is such a thing as Archetypes and Stereotypes. Howard Ross said that Archetypes are known as cultural patterns which lead us to what the general needs of a population are. He also went on to say that “if we take those general needs of a population and we assume that it is true for everyone in that population, then we are turning it into a stereotype.” (2011) This is very important to understand
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