The nursing assistant was reluctant to allow the Muslim patient room for a prayer rug in her room. The inability to recognize the values, beliefs, and practices of others because of strong ethnocentric preferences is which of the following?
A) Acculturation
B) Cultural imposition
C) Cultural blindness
D) Cultural taboos
C
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Cultural blindness is an inability to recognize the values, beliefs, and practices of others because of strong ethnocentric preferences. Cultural taboos are activities governed by rules of behavior that a particular cultural group avoids, forbids, or prohibits. Acculturation involves adapting to or taking on the behaviors of another group. Cultural imposition is an inclination to impose one's cultural beliefs, values, and patterns of behavior on people from a different culture.
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