Importance of acknowledging racial and cultural differences

Importance of race and ethnicity: an exploration of Asian, Black, Latino, and multiracial adolescent identity.

This mixed-method study used a grounded theory approach to explore the meanings underlying the importance that adolescents attach to their racial-ethnic identities. The sample consisted of 923 9th- to 12th-grade students from Black, Latino, Asian, and multiracial backgrounds. Thematic findings identified a broad range of explanations for adolescents' racial-ethnic centrality, ranging from pride...

Cultural Differences and Importance of Somatic Symptoms Could Provide Hidden Clues and Potential Management Options for Depressed Patients with Suicidal Ideation

Deconstruction of Cultural, Racial and Gender Dominance in Iranian Senior High School EFL Textbooks

Course books play a crucial role in educational process and are believed to be the pivotal ingredient of language teaching. Every new textbook needs to be analyzed in order to reach its best. Hence this study aims to analyze three Iranian English course books to reveal how various cultures are shown via the course books characters’ race, nationality, gender, and intercultural communications. Th...

Racial differences in factors that influence the willingness to participate in medical research studies.

PURPOSE The relative absence of racial/ethnic minorities among medical research subjects is receiving considerable attention because of recent government mandates for their inclusion in all human subject research. We examined racial differences in the prevalence of sociocultural barriers as a possible explanation for the underrepresentation of African Americans in medical research studies. ME...

Mental health services for African Americans: a cultural/racial perspective.

African Americans have made consistent progress toward first-class citizenship since 1965. Nonetheless, mental health services for this population have been biased, incomplete, and deficient because similarities to European Americans have been emphasized whereas differences were largely ignored. This article addresses some differences, including cultural/racial identity and the cultural self, t...