Cultural Assessment

Cultural Assessment
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Cultural Assessment:
The Chinese and Filipino Cultures
The Chinese Culture
When people hear the word “China” they think of a vast and exotic country in the Orient with one of the oldest cultures in the world. The Chinese have been known to have a unique, rich and wonderful culture that focuses on health and spirituality (Pillai, n.d.). Their traditions vary from one province to another and just like their traditions, they have different languages like Cantonese, Hokkien, Hakka, etc. but their official language is Mandarin.
The traditional Chinese family functions under both the patrilineal and patriarchal design. Patrilineal means that the lineage of the family runs through the males and that family membership is inherited from the father. Patriarchal means the family is led by the male members of the family. The Chinese culture also operates on filial piety. Filial piety means that the elders in the family have higher authority and respect over younger members of the family. The elders are the decision-makers of the family in all aspects where a decision is needed. They also pay reverence to those who have passed on and failure to do so means bad luck for the family. The Chinese usually have extended families and kinship terms are given to every position in the family (Gailliard, 2010), for example, shu: father’s younger brother, hsiung: elder brother, mei: younger sister, etc.
The Chinese have many beliefs and most are holistic in nature. This means their beliefs are connected and can be applied to all aspects of their life like health, wealth, success, society, family, etc. The Chinese are the first to have a medical culture. With 5,000 years of history, a deep and immense knowledge of medical science was formed ADDIN Mendeley Citation{9986180a-f6dc-49cb-b898-138bd507f28f} CSL_CITATION { "citationItems" : [ { "id" : "ITEM-1", "itemData" : { "URL" : "/intro/medicine.htm", "accessed" : { "date-parts" : [ [ "2011", "8", "4" ] ] }, "id" : "ITEM-1", "note" : "", "title" : "Chinese Medicine, Medical Culture, Four Methods of Diagnosis", "type" : "webpage" }, "uris" : [ "/documents/?uuid=9986180a-f6dc-49cb-b898-138bd507f28f" ] } ], "mendeley" : { "previouslyFormattedCitation" : "(\u201cChinese Medicine, Medical Culture, Four Methods of Diagnosis,\u201d n d)" }, "properties" : { "noteIndex" : 0 }, "schema" : "https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json" } (“Chinese Medicine, Medical Culture, Four Methods of Diagnosis,” n d). This holistic view emphasizes that environmental factors, in relation to health, increases the risk for disease. These factors affect the balance of the body’s harmony, Yin-Yang, and together with Qi they show the relationship between the people and their surroundings. Imbalance between these two forces, or in the Qi, results to illness and balance among these factors...