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| An involuntary process in which people adapt to or borrow traits from another culture. |
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| A type of nontraditional medicine used in place of conventional medicine. |
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| Adopting and incorporating characteristics of a new culture within one's practices. |
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| Preference for a certain set of ideas. |
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| Nontraditional medicine that is used in combination with conventional medicine. |
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| One who serves as a go-between or advocate for people from different cultural backgrounds. |
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| Refers to the ability of the nurse to understand and effectively respond to the needs of patients and families from different cultural backgrounds |
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| The totality of socially transmitted behavioral patterns, arts, beliefs, values, customs, lifestyles, and all other products of human work; characteristics of a population of people that guide their worldview and decision making. |
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| The experience that a person has in attempting to understand or adapt to a culture that is fundamentally different from his or her own culture. |
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| A highly respected shaman in the Hispanic and other Mexican-American cultures who uses white magic and herbs to bring about cures. |
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| A healer who communicates with spirits. |
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| Cultural group's sense of identification associated with the group's common social and cultural heritage. |
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| The belief that an individual's own culture is superior to all others. |
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| An organized system of shared beliefs regarding the significance of the nature, cause, and purpose of life and the universe. |
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| Members of a community who conduct healing in their home or home of the patient; specific to certain cultures. |
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| Belief that the forces of nature must be maintained in balance or harmony, and that human life is one aspect of nature that must be in harmony with the rest of nature. Illness results when the natural balance or harmony is disturbed; also called naturalistic health belief. |
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| Individuals who are foreign-born and migrate to the United States to live and work. |
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| magico-religious paradigm |
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| Health and illness are determined by supernatural forces such as God, gods, magic, spirits, or fate. |
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| A negative feeling about someone who is perceived as being different. |
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| A group of people who share biological similarities such as skin color, bone structure, and genetic traits. |
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| A person who is unable or unwilling to return to their country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution based on race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion. |
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| An organized system of shared beliefs regarding the significance of the nature, cause, and purpose of life and of the universe. |
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| scientific or biomedical health paradigm |
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| The belief that life and life processes are controlled by physical and biochemical processes that can be manipulated by humans. |
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| A man or woman who enters an altered state of consciousness, at will, to contact and utilize another type of reality to acquire knowledge and power and to help other people. |
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| Individuals that use massage and manipulation to treat patients with joint and muscle problems. |
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| The individual's experience and interpretation of his or her relationship with a Supreme Being. |
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| The assumption that all members of a culture, ethnic, or racial group are alike and share the same attitudes and beliefs. |
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