A nurse believes that the best treatment for illness is the use of Western medicine and alternative therapies should not be used for healing. Which of the following best describes what has hap-pened?
a. Ethnocentrism
b. Cultural imposition
c. Racism
d. Stereotyping
Ans: A
Ethnocentrism is the belief that one's own cultural group determines the standards by which an-other group's behavior is judged. Cultural imposition is the act of imposing one's cultural beliefs, values, and practices on individuals from another culture. Racism is a form of prejudice that oc-curs through the exercise of power by individuals and institutions against people who are judged to be inferior on the basis of intelligence, morals, beauty, inheritance, and self-worth. Stereotyp-ing is ascribing certain beliefs and behaviors about a given racial and ethnic group to an individu-al without assessing for individual differences.
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