The growing multiculturalism of the American society can lead to problems when:
1. Cultural standards are congruent with professional standards.
2. Certain ethnic groups do not want to comply with Western medicine ideals.
3. Ethnic groups overburden the health care system.
4. The greater community's values are jeopardized by specific ethnic values.
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Callahan offered perspectives on judging diversity and states that, in America, we impose stan-dards on ourselves for important moral reasons and there is no good reason to exempt subgroups from those standards.
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