Variables
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Varying Levels of Competency
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| Values and Behavioral Styles |
The
individual's ability to portray values and behavioral styles that are
common to the ethnic group. This also refers to the ability to
perceive and understand values and behavioral styles that are common to
the ethnic group. |
| Languages and Dialects |
The
individual's ability to comprehend and speak the languages and/or dialects
in the ethnic group. |
| Nonverbal Communications |
The
individual's ability to recognize, correctly construe, and communicate the
nonverbal communications in the particular ethnic culture. |
| Cultural Cognitiveness |
The individual's ability to understand how his/her own
ethnic group compares with other ethnic groups and the national
macroculture. |
| Perspectives, World Views, and Frames of Reference |
The individual's ability to be aware of and comprehend the
perspectives and world views that are common to their ethnic group.
This also refers to his/her ability to examine actions and circumstances
from the perspectives and world views common to their ethnic group. |
| Identification |
This refers to not only the individual's ability to have an
identification with an ethnic group that may be unconscious, but also
his/her ability to display clear actions that show mindful identification
with one's ethnic group. |
