Prior to 1991, Ethiopia experiences a unitary state system in which the central government had an undivided ultimate right on all aspects of economic, social, and political issues. Initiated, organized, and led by an association of discontented Tigrean elites, due to high centralization of power, the TPLF started its liberation movement to topple the military regime. Assuming power EPRDF establ...

This study examined the hypothesis that differences in the cultural norms of Anglo-Americans and three other ethnic groups—Asian, Hispanic, and Black Americans—will result in different behaviors on a group task. Student subjects were assigned to ethnically diverse or allAnglo groups. Individual and group responses were measured using a Prisoner's Dilemma task in which participants could choose ...

Background Increases in ethnic diversity and globalization of healthcare have made it imperative to develop a culturally competent nursing workforce. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), National League for Nursing (NLN), and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) support this effort. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the use of contemporary literature and cultural learning ...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To use the Oncology Nursing Society's cultural competence guidelines to review research studies conducted by oncology nurse researchers with racial and ethnic minorities and published in the Oncology Nursing Forum during 1990-2000. DATA SOURCES Using selected key words (e.g., cultural competence, cultural diversity, multiculturalism, minorities, African American/Black Ameri...

Settlement geography and cultural landscapes, two well-established themes of human geography, have taken on renewed importance in the study of the United States. The examination of regional cultural patterns, such as the distribution of Hispanics in the American Southwest, Germans in Texas, and Mormons in the Salt Lake Region are a few examples of the geographic research tradition. More recentl...

Research examining how cultural factors affect adjustment of ethnic minority individuals would be strengthened if study samples better represented the diversity within these populations. To recruit a representative sample of Mexican American families, the authors implemented a multiple-step process that included sampling communities to represent diversity in cultural and economic conditions, re...

This discussion examines some of the major issues and attributes of culturally responsive teaching. It begins with explaining my views of culturally responsive teaching and how I incorporate cultural responsiveness in my writing to teach readers what it means. These general conceptual frameworks are followed by a discussion of some specific actions essential to its implementation. They are rest...

BACKGROUND Australia is a culturally and ethnically diverse country. Within such diversity there will be differing beliefs systems about death and dying. This may be a challenging prospect for health professionals. OBJECTIVE This article discusses how cultural diversity may impact care and provides some strategies for the general practitioner when considering the provision of end of life care...

Healthcare inequalities within the UK based on patients' ethnicity have been found over the last five years in a large number of medical specialties. One possible explanation for this lies in ignorance of ethnic minority healthcare needs among professionals. Cultural diversity programmes have been shown to improve patient outcomes including compliance, yet these are not as yet requirements for ...

Proposed a research framework (the "cube" model) in which community psychologists working in ethnic-cultural communities can make appropriate decisions on conceptual and methodological issues from a culturally anchored, ecological-contextualist perspective. The intent of the model is to articulate ethnic-cultural heterogeneity in community research by elucidating three metamethodological issues...