WK8Assgn Multicultural Awareness.docx COUN 6100 Journal: Multicultural Awareness School

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WK8Assgn Multicultural Awareness.docx COUN 6100 Journal: Multicultural Awareness School of Counseling and Human Services, Walden University COUN 6100: Introduction to Clinical Mental Health Counse... ling Journal: Multicultural Awareness We all have answered the question of what race are you at some point in time of our lives. We are all living through a time where there is a light being shined on different cultures and the oppressions they are experiencing. This paper will discuss my own thoughts of the multicultural awareness I have and what made me aware of not only my culture, but the cultures of others. Multicultural Self-Assessment When taking the multicultural self assessment, I saw that I was pretty vocal with communication and good at understanding other cultures. However, I am not good with trusting others and nor am I comfortable with new environments. I took the Harvard assessments for if I associate my self with being calm/anxious and happy/sad. My results were equal in responses for happy/sad and more self associating with self and anxious as opposed to calm. Based on my results, I can admit that Im easily nervous and fearful of the unknown. I think with everything going on in todays world and what my ancestors experienced with our culture in the past, I understand the reality that, in my option, much hasnt truly changed for my culture. It has only developed new techniques to produce the same result. That is fearful to me because I dont think were moving in the direction of change like we think.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . [Show More]

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