Individual Cultural Communication
This requires correct grammar, punctuation, and APA format. This will also be used to post for a Group Discussion on cultural communication. You will need to do a running head, but you do not need an abstract. Use the following headings as a template and answer all questions. One citationmust come from a refereed journal article, one from a textbook, and one from an Internetsource. This has a page limit of 5 to 7 pages, excluding the reference list
Discuss your own culture’s pattern of communication using Purnell’s Domains of Culture as a guide. Speak to each one of the following points:
- Identify your cultural ancestry. If you have more than one cultural ancestry, choose the one with which you most closely associate.
- Explore the willingness of individuals in your culture to share thoughts, feelings, and ideas. Can you identify any area of discussion that would be considered taboo?
- Explore the practice and meaning of touch in your culture. Include information regarding touch between family members, friends, members of the opposite sex, and health‐care providers.
- Identify personal spatial and distancing strategies used when communicating with others in your culture. Discuss differences between friends and families versus strangers.
- Discuss your culture’s use of eye contact. Include information regarding practices between family members, friends, strangers, and persons of different age groups.
- Explore the meaning of gestures and facial expressions in your culture. Do specific gestures or facial expressions have special meanings? How are emotions displayed?
- Are there acceptable ways of standing and greeting people in your culture?
- Discuss the prevailing temporal relation of your culture. Is the culture’s worldview past, present, or future-oriented?
- Discuss the impact of your culture on your nursing and/or health care.