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Your culture is responsible for the way that you encounter every single relationship.

It influences every single facet of your day:

What you ate for breakfast this morning.

How you treat your parents.

Whether you prayed or not.

How you greeted your partner, kids, dogs, cats, birds.

Whether you have any of the above.

How you dress.

Your job.

If you enjoy your job.

How you speak to your colleagues/friends/acquaintances/family.

How you interact with members of the public.

How you interact with your superiors.

If you answer to superiors.

Whether you think you can be held accountable by anyone.

If you take sickies.

How you feel about people (gender, sexual orientation, colour) in all aspects of life.

Forming first impressions.

What you perceive as politeness.

How you drink tea.

How you make tea.

What you watch on TV.

What you read.

What hobbies you have.

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Integration – treat others as you want to be treated

Inclusion – treat others as they want to be treated

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CULTURE IS EVERYONE.

We have a work culture.

We have a family culture.

We have a street culture.

We have a town culture.

We have a home culture.

BUT ALL THESE CULTURES DIFFER.

We are all a part of a culture. Embracing this makes us more open to being compassionate and inclusive

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There is no such thing as a monoculture.

Even within our homes, and our relationships, we have different cultures.

Having a monoculture is not only NOT REALISTIC, it is almost impossible, unless we ALL do EVERYTHING in EXACTLY the same way.

We are one, but we are many.

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Our goal is to take ourselves out of co-opting cultural safety.

Cultural safety has become coded language for safety without the discomfort.

In Australia, we do not use the term the way it was intended. We use it as performative and tokenistic, often accompanied with little to no change.

We prefer CULTURAL HUMILITY.

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Cultural humility is a form of self reflection.

It allows us to consider our own biases, privilege and identity to know and understand ourselves, therefore, allowing us to have more empathy towards others.

Often the focus is on how we can help the other, but we believe that it is incumbent upon ourselves to know where we sit, and how we can be more self reflective, in order to be kinder and more compassionate towards people.

Empathy is identifying with the feelings that somebody is having, even if you haven't experienced the same scenario.

Sympathy is feeling bad for someone because they have experienced something.

Whilst both of these can be sincere, empathy identities with the underlying feeling, rather than the specific circumstance.

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Culture humility allows us to have a more dynamic view of the world and consider that other people come with different views and beliefs, and these are not wrong by virtue of who they are. As they are not wrong by virture of who we are.

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Knowing where we stand, the lens which we have, and the views that we have formed based on our upbringing, media consumption and education - means that we are able to locate that in the greater worldview. Knowing that our perspectives are not the only perspectives around, means that we are more accomodating and can adapt to people better than if we have a fixed mindset - one in which only our truth is correct and there are no other truths to be seen.

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