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Cultural Competency and Respect Are Crucial for Addressing Disparities in Cancer Care

With persistent disparities in access to cancer screening and subsequent treatment outcomes among minority populations, greater emphasis must be placed on culturally competent care in clinical practice to better align care delivery with patients’ diverse cultural backgrounds, support systems, and health care needs, according to Akina Tamaki, MD.

Cultural Competency Is Key To International Brand Success

Embracing cultural norms in business is the key to penetrating new markets, attracting international customers and enabling a local product or service to find a global audience.

Chances are when introducing new products and services to a foreign market, you may need to meet in person with purchasing agents, potential customers and clients of another culture. It is vital that you learn in advance the culture or cultures of the people with whom you will meet.

Who Is Telling Whose Story, To Whom, and Why?

What is the result when the stories provide only extremely biased and very incorrect portrayals of entire groups of people, completely ignoring and omitting the actual experiences and points of view of the people in those groups?

We end up with a society where some of us think our voices and viewpoints are the important ones, and some of us think our voices and viewpoints do not matter.

It’s about valuing their audience: why Ghostbusters called in a Muslim ‘cultural consultant’

Perhaps less well-known, but now gaining ground in film and TV, is the role of a “cultural consultant” – advisers taken on by productions to help them navigate the choppy waters of sensitivities around ethnicity and faith.