When a home-bound client expresses her past-oriented ancestral heritage and family rituals, the nurse recognizes that the client is expressing:
A) Race
B) Assimilation
C) Subculture
D) Ethnic identity
Ans: D
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Ethnicity or ethnic identity refers to self-conscious, past-oriented form of identity based on a notion of shared cultural (and perhaps ancestral) heritage, and current position in larger society. Race is based on biologic characteristics; assimilation refers to new customs and attitudes that are acquired through contact and communication among persons of a particular culture; subculture refers to a group of people within a culture who have ideas and beliefs which are different from the rest of that society.
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