Cultural competence: An essential skill in an increasingly diverse world – Slaw

Short article on cultural competence with respect to lawyers. Starts with awareness:

Instead of trying to be “culture-blind” a common strategy of minimization, a culturally competent lawyer should strive to build a working knowledge of behavioural predictors: cultural dimensions of behaviour that are shared by the majority of individuals within a cultural identity. Unlike stereotypes, behavioural predictors are grounded in science for example, anthropology or sociology and allow the user to assess a person’s behaviour against cultural generalizations.

Cultural competence: An essential skill in an increasingly diverse world – Slaw.