cultural sensitivity
collocation in Englishmeaningsofculturalandsensitivity
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cultural
adjective
uk/ˈkʌl.tʃər.əl/us/ˈkʌl.tʃɚ.əl/
relating to the habits, traditions, and beliefs of ...
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sensitivity
noun
uk/ˌsen.sɪˈtɪv.ə.ti/us/ˌsen.səˈtɪv.ə.t̬i/
an ability to understand what other people need, and be helpful and kind ...
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(Definition ofculturalandsensitivityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Supervising inter national students requiresculturalsensitivity.
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Ethics andculturalsensitivitywere also gist (specialist physician).
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Leadership from all societal sectors and participant groups must incorporateculturalsensitivityinto future change management.
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What teachers need is linguistic sophistication, pedagogical soundness, andculturalsensitivity.
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But thisculturalsensitivityonly accentuates the problems inherent in multicultural therapy.
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The anecdotes themselves constitute a tutorial onculturalsensitivityin fieldwork.
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This may have honed his skills ofculturalsensitivityand accommodation.
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It incorporated an acknowledgement of institutional racism, and thus sought to go beyond policies associated with multiculturalism andculturalsensitivity.
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Ethical issues had also to be taken seriously, for example, linguistic andculturalsensitivityto topics such as death.
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Are there issues ofculturalsensitivityon the part of traditional practitioners about the non-traditional use of these materials?
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The authors begin a chapter on 'culturalsensitivity' by stating that they approached writing the chapter with a sense of foreboding.
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Several initiatives, such as increased communication and education, better assessment of health care disparities, and efforts to increaseculturalsensitivity, could lessen these differences.
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Part of the difficulty of developing popular theatre through theculturalsensitivityof contemporary music is the way that music symbolizes divergent tendencies in cultural differentiation.
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For this project it was thought that the gains in fluency from translation by qualified translators would be greater than the losses ofculturalsensitivityand meaning.
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They complain that there is littleculturalsensitivityor understanding once they get to an agency.
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He commented thatculturalsensitivityis no excuse for moral blindness.
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Culturalsensitivityand understanding are also vital.
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Culturalsensitivitycan increase the security of travellers.
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They are able to operate in areas of political andculturalsensitivityin which government cannot always operate.
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The author considers a wide range of motivations for this emerging body of work, surveying the range of approaches that composers have taken, and urges the cultivation ofculturalsensitivity.
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It is essential that right of access should be assured although it will often take time to overcome religious andculturalsensitivity.
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It is essential that, within any race relations programme,culturalsensitivityprogrammes should be made available to all our public servants, including police.
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No longer isculturalsensitivityneeded only for product design destined for diverse markets.
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