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>> One word to describe
cultural humility

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for me is love actually.

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>> If I had to encapsulate
cultural humility,

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the whole concepts
of cultural humility,

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it doesn't do it
justice, but the word

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that I think of is essence.

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Escuchar.

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>> Being.

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>> You.

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>> Opening.

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>> Receive.

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>> Compassion.

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>> Love.

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>> The principles of cultural
humility offer one more

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framework to contribute
to what has got

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to be our ultimate goal, yes.

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Our ultimate goal is that there
will be a sense of equity,

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a sense of equality
and a kind of respect

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that we are driving forward.

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>> Cultural humility is a
multidimensional concept.

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And certainly Melanie Tervalon

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and I conceptualized
three dimensions.

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>> The first is lifelong
learning

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and critical self- reflection.

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And in that critical
self-reflection it is the

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understanding of how each of
us, every singe one of us,

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is a complicated,
multidimensional human being.

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Each of us comes with our
own histories and stories,

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our heritage, our point of view.

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You are looking at me now.

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I am very fair skinned.

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When I was a little
girl my hair was blond.

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My eyes are blue.

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People often tried to call me
anything but African-American.

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I have a history.

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My identity is rooted
in that history.

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My parents gave me the knowledge
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and my own experience in
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I get to say who I am.

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>> The second tenet
after self-reflection

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and ongoing lifelong learning
and development is this notion

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that we must mitigate the
power imbalances, to recognize

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and mitigate the
power imbalances

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that are inherent often
in our clinician patient

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or clinician client for service
provider community dynamics.

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>> And then finally the piece
that I would offer that Jann

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and I feel people often either
don't read or don't like.

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And the institution has to
model these principles as well.

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>> An African-American
nurse caring

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for a middle aged Latino
woman several hours

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after the patient had
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>> A Latino physician

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on a consult service
approached the bedside

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and noted the moaning
patient commented to the nurse

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that the patient appeared
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of post- operative pain.

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>> The nurse summarily dismissed
his perception informing him

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that she took a course in
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cultural medicine and knew
that Hispanic patients over-

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express the pain that
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The Latino physician had a
difficult time influencing the

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perspective of this
nurse who focused

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on her self-proclaimed
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>> It was curious to this
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of all was Latino,
not like all --

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in his case not like
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know everything there is to know
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That wasn't it.

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But he might have
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for that African-American
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that she didn't feel
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because she had bought into
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of cultural competence.

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>> The distinction
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and cultural competence was
that we were in a process

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and a relationship that had
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and that we were less
comfortable with even the term

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of competence in a way that I
think people understand well.

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And that it implies especially
for people who are providers

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and are trained in academia

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that you are then all
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And we felt like that was
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as we were learning from
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in a very practical way
how families were coming

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to the hospital and feeling

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as if they really were not being
heard from their own heritage

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in history, and how that
impacted what they came

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to the hospital with that we
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hadn't even a clue about.

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For us this is part of
the humility piece of it,

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getting to understand that.

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Not trying to humiliate you,
not trying to make you feel bad,

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trying to help us all understand
that life is like this.

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And that in a certain
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about not knowing.

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>> In April of 1992 in the wake

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of the Los Angeles riots
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verdict of the police officers
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the Children's Hospital open
community was compelled to meet

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in a series of highly
charged sessions to expose

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and critique our own patterns
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injustice and inequity.

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>> My name is Dr. Melanie
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of Multicultural Affairs here
at Children's Hospital Oakland.

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>> I want to thank
everybody for coming

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to what is a celebration
for me of this year.

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>> Jann and I had the good
fortune really to be together

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in the same place when
this work was evolving.

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Jann and I while we were
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in age are both African-American
women.

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And we were both raised by
women who were teachers.

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And we come out of that -- and
fathers who were working men,

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who come out of that
southern tradition

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and who participated fully
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in a way that meant that
they made sacrifices

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and their children made
sacrifices, and they taught us

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about those sacrifices
and raised us each in ways

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to understand that we
were here to serve.

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>> Patty.

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>> Hey.

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>> How you doing?

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>> How are you?

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>> It's good to see you.

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>> It's so good to see you.

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It's been a long time.

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>> I know, yeah.

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>> How have you been?

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>> Pretty good.

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>> Good. Thank you
for having me.

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>> I'm invested in children
and in that population

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because I've been
there for so, so long.

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>> Since we were residents.

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>> And I'm seeing like second
generation of my families now.

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>> The multicultural curriculum
program really started

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in about 91- 92 as a pilot.

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>> When was Rodney King,
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>> It was provoked in 92.

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>> 92, yes.

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>> The Rodney King
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over the world really at
Children's meant that we started

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to talk again about what
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Rodney Kings.

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The circumstances
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as if they were not being taken
care of in a respectful way.

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That was a big part of
our work, being certain

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that we were living
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that had clearly
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through the conversations
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That given the composition
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and given the composition of
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of that the faculty could really
not teach about the issues

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of culture and race and
difference in time and the like.

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And so we spent a lot of time
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and families to actually
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>> When I think of the two
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versus cultural humility, for me
cultural competency implies kind

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of a subject, a topic, you know.

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And people do feel like I
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and if I don't know this
I'm not smart or whatever.

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Whereas for me cultural
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it's an approach, it
is a tool, you know.

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So it's not something to be
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It's my approach, it's how
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>> Last year I was
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of the student support
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that families have with teachers

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when their kids are
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And it was quite interesting
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those meetings in
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with the principles
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Just to really try to say

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to my colleagues let's hear
what this parent is experiencing

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and what this parent hears
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And let's try to talk about that
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you know, your kid is XYZ.

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>> One of the things that
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to also kind of make
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that for a long time
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for lack of intelligence.

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And a dear friend of mine
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when I was having a conversation
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that you're not intelligent,
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of knowledge in this particular
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So it doesn't take away
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by any stretch of
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You don't know because
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or you haven't asked
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And it allowed me to be able
to ask a million questions

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because now I didn't feel
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or to the person
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or to the community I'm stupid.

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I was happy just saying
I just don't know.

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with medicine there's no way

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for you know something
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So once I could distinguish the
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with not knowing anymore.

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>> The article gets written
but not published right away

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about what we learned from all

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of this work working
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And this is the cultural
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that people have now
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not just in medicine
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Many nonprofit organizations use
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in their work.

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The principles are not just

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about individual
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Institutions have got
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Lifelong learners have to really
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that are being served really
do know what they want

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and what they need, right, and
they're in the best position

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to let us know what that is.

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>> People living in poverty
have the least access to power

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to change the structure
of policies of poverty,

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and are often denied
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to combat the violations
to their human rights.

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And I care about this issue

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because my brother is an
innocent man with special needs

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who has been held in what
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for two years now for a
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And I come to you because the

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so called justice
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to benefit my community.

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And I can hear the voice of
the oppressed that echo, no,

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you don't deserve
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Just us. You don't have
a history, just us.

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You don't have the strength
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You don't remember what
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Just us.

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>> There are these moments
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that we can take advantage of.

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And I think the Rodney
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to Rodney King, is what inspired
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of soul searching and a
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that we could have
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with better result.

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And then it fades.

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>> The three police officers
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were among a group of 15

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who stopped a 25 year old
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then beat him, kicked
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>> At WHAT Radio host Mary
Mason fielded scores of calls

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from members of the
Black community angered

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by the verdict, shocked by
the violence that followed.

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>> We need love and
respect for one another.

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We need [inaudible].

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>> In 2010 Arizona passed a law
that authorized local police

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to check the immigration status
of anyone of whom they suspect

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of being an illegal immigrant
to the United States.

258
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Who has the right to call
another human being illegal?

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Most of these illegals are the
ones working in the fields,

260
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cleaning homes, landscaping
at jobs that have the right

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to pay lower than minimum wage.

262
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>> There are things that
are difficult to hear,

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and there are things that
are just plain hard to see.

264
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So how it is a fish
doesn't see water.

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It's very hard when you benefit

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from great privilege
to see it as that.

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And I would say it takes
constant reminding.

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And I certainly don't
see it all the time.

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And each time I'm
reminded of it I'm reminded

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that I'm reminded of it.

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That why do I have to be
reminded of it, oh but I do.

272
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>> I heard the white woman
behind us say you foreigners

273
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have no manners.

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My initial reaction was
anger and confusion.

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Anger because I felt
discriminated

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against and judged.

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Confusion because she was an
older woman, so hadn't she been

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around long enough to know
that she is not a native

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of this country either?

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We are constantly bombarded
by subliminal messages

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that light skin is superior.

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Immigration policy is
continuously debated

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in the White House, while
brown men are hoping

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to land a side job
outside of Home Depot.

285
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>> How does cultural
humility come to life

286
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at Berkeley Media Studies Group?

287
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I have to credit Tony
Borbone [phonetic].

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Bony Borbone, may
he rest in peace,

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was a violence prevention
advocate par excellence

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who I met early in our years in
working on violence prevention

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when we first started the
Berkeley Media Studies Group.

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And Tony just confronted me and
said you live in California,

293
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how many of your
staff speak Spanish?

294
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And I had to say none.

295
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And Tony in I was
going to say loving,

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it wasn't in a loving way, it
was in a confrontational way.

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I mean we grew to love each
other and each other's work

298
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and had great respect
for each other I think

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as our relationship blossomed.

300
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But he had no fear about
saying what was important.

301
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[ Music ]

302
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>> It's really important
to show up.

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Take the time from your
life and show that you care

304
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about the community
and be there.

305
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So the workers were
participating in actions

306
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to bring pressure on
a poultry market owner

307
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who owed her workers wages.

308
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The workers were going
out with picket signs,

309
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and I went with them, too.

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In that way I felt nervous.

311
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You do kind of feel exposed.

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You're in the environment
that's very different from some

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of the other things
that I'd done.

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[ Music ]

315
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So when we had these
meetings everybody

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on the project was
really experienced

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in doing community research.

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But there's a dynamic.

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When you're in a
professional culture you're used

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to participating in meetings
and trying to get in your word.

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And then on top of all

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that we're conducting
all these in English.

323
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And so the other two staff

324
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from the Chinese Progressive
Association were interpreting

325
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for the non-English
speaking staff member.

326
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And so they're not fully
able to participate.

327
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And then everything is happening
so fast, people are talking

328
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over each other,
that for the non-

329
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English speaking staff member
it was hard for her to sort

330
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of get a word in edgewise.

331
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We did reflect on this
and people noticed it.

332
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Then we started to conduct
the meetings in Chinese.

333
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And then all the English
speakers wore the headsets

334
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with simultaneous
interpretation.

335
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>> The native English
speakers were quieter,

336
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and that changed
the dynamics a lot.

337
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But the workers were
still quiet.

338
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In terms of cultural humility
we were really challenged

339
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to think I think a
little bit more deeply

340
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about what culture is and
how it doesn't mean thinking

341
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about a list of traits that
you can ascribe to people.

342
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But that it's actually
that it involves you

343
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and your assumptions and how
you project your assumptions

344
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onto somebody else versus what
is their actual experience

345
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of who they actually are.

346
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[ Music ]

347
00:19:29,296 --> 00:19:30,736
>> I first heard about
cultural humility

348
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when I was a graduate student
in the master's program here

349
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at San Francisco State.

350
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But I feel like I first
understood cultural humility

351
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as a concept a lot
earlier in my life.

352
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It came from a place of
invisibility, a place of kind

353
00:19:42,746 --> 00:19:44,526
of suppressing who I
was as a woman of color

354
00:19:44,526 --> 00:19:48,686
and now has completely
transformed as an educator,

355
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realizing who I am,
where I stand

356
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in the classroom,
what my privilege is.

357
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But also what my voice
means in the world

358
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and what it means
as an educator.

359
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It came from trying to fit
in, to do whatever I could

360
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to be Indian at home and
not out in the world.

361
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And not express that, and it's
become this marker of identity

362
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that I knew was always there

363
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that I could never
really express growing up.

364
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And now it's saying
who that person is

365
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and acknowledging both my own
power and privilege in I've got

366
00:20:20,526 --> 00:20:21,766
to check myself kind of way.

367
00:20:22,186 --> 00:20:25,126
In the same respect it's also
saying I am a woman of color,

368
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I have something important
to say and here I am.

369
00:20:28,336 --> 00:20:30,936
>> I think as long as
power and privilege exists

370
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in society we will always being
struggling with being too humble

371
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as women of color,
as women who come

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from working class
backgrounds, as women who come

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from low income backgrounds

374
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or under resourced
backgrounds, right?

375
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As long as there's
power and privilege

376
00:20:43,746 --> 00:20:46,236
in society I know I will
always be struggling with that,

377
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and I struggle with
that on a daily basis.

378
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[ Music ]

379
00:21:06,046 --> 00:21:07,606
>> I examined [inaudible] here

380
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to see how inclusive
our current policies

381
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and programming are toward
transgender students.

382
00:21:13,236 --> 00:21:16,406
>> And I was just reflecting

383
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about how it's actually
very relevant

384
00:21:19,886 --> 00:21:24,086
to the topic this evening
of cultural humility

385
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because we're talking
like transgender culture

386
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or peer culture at [inaudible]
and how it's respected or not.

387
00:21:31,106 --> 00:21:31,436
>> Right.

388
00:21:31,556 --> 00:21:36,516
>> And how like the institution
can be culturally relevant

389
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or humble or respectful of
the experience of transgenders

390
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when they come to this place.

391
00:21:43,226 --> 00:21:45,726
>> The health educators
that I work

392
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with are all transgender
females.

393
00:21:48,336 --> 00:21:52,516
And literally the second day of
my job I walked into a meeting,

394
00:21:52,516 --> 00:21:55,306
and it was a committee
advisory board

395
00:21:55,796 --> 00:21:57,656
of all transgender females.

396
00:21:57,836 --> 00:21:59,306
And I was so uncomfortable

397
00:21:59,306 --> 00:22:01,626
but at the same time they
made me feel so comfortable.

398
00:22:01,626 --> 00:22:07,326
They started asking me questions
like they noticed, and they were

399
00:22:07,406 --> 00:22:09,486
like so where are
you from, you know?

400
00:22:09,486 --> 00:22:10,686
And I was like I'm Iranian.

401
00:22:10,686 --> 00:22:13,036
Oh, we know this Middle
Eastern transgender girl,

402
00:22:13,036 --> 00:22:14,506
do you know her?

403
00:22:14,506 --> 00:22:15,806
And I was like no.

404
00:22:15,896 --> 00:22:21,426
So my definition of cultural
humility is to be open

405
00:22:22,006 --> 00:22:25,436
to learning all the time.

406
00:22:25,626 --> 00:22:30,056
So what I want from you guys is
to go around, introduce yourself

407
00:22:30,056 --> 00:22:33,066
and tell us what cultural
humility means to you.

408
00:22:33,066 --> 00:22:35,026
>> I first became passionate
about cultural humility

409
00:22:35,466 --> 00:22:37,986
as an undergraduate
student I was interning

410
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with an organization.

411
00:22:39,476 --> 00:22:43,606
And they were holding a
cultural competency training

412
00:22:43,606 --> 00:22:45,776
for Pacific Islanders
and working

413
00:22:45,776 --> 00:22:47,016
with Pacific Islander
communities.

414
00:22:47,366 --> 00:22:50,326
And as a biracial Pacific
Islander woman I was really

415
00:22:50,326 --> 00:22:54,476
excited and anxious to attend
the training and to really learn

416
00:22:54,476 --> 00:22:56,976
about the material that was
going to be sort of discussed

417
00:22:57,306 --> 00:22:59,856
and how others were going
to learn, myself included,

418
00:23:00,506 --> 00:23:03,896
about Pacific Island culture and
working with Pacific Islanders

419
00:23:03,896 --> 00:23:06,316
around health issues that were
important to the community.

420
00:23:06,786 --> 00:23:10,546
And I think after attending the
training I realized there was a

421
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sense of achievement
and completion

422
00:23:13,646 --> 00:23:15,406
for those who participated.

423
00:23:15,406 --> 00:23:19,486
And I then was introduced
to cultural humility

424
00:23:19,486 --> 00:23:20,896
as an undergraduate
student in the class,

425
00:23:21,326 --> 00:23:22,656
just so happened
around the same time.

426
00:23:22,656 --> 00:23:26,786
And I realized that a sense of
achievement and accomplishment

427
00:23:26,786 --> 00:23:30,186
and competence and understanding
sort of limits your learning.

428
00:23:30,436 --> 00:23:33,796
>> I can't really tell you what
cultural humility means to me.

429
00:23:33,796 --> 00:23:37,096
I feel like I practice
it and that's how I know.

430
00:23:37,096 --> 00:23:40,206
The one thing that I think about

431
00:23:40,206 --> 00:23:44,396
or that I can practice is
cultural humility is --

432
00:23:44,396 --> 00:23:47,536
Poder hablar el idioma en el que soy

433
00:23:47,536 --> 00:23:50,476
en el que me puedo expresar mejor, y

434
00:23:50,476 --> 00:23:52,369
El idioma donde encuentro palabras

435
00:23:52,389 --> 00:23:54,759
de poder contarle a alguien

436
00:23:54,759 --> 00:23:56,976
exactamente como me estoy sintiendo.

437
00:23:56,976 --> 00:23:59,696
>> Coming from a background
in science and coming

438
00:23:59,696 --> 00:24:04,186
into public health and not
ever hearing cultural humility

439
00:24:04,186 --> 00:24:06,526
in the sciences was
very telling for me.

440
00:24:07,396 --> 00:24:11,006
Because culture is
something that's emphasized,

441
00:24:11,006 --> 00:24:13,996
it's not something that's
talked about in a relevant way.

442
00:24:14,496 --> 00:24:18,536
There have always been
very clear barriers present

443
00:24:18,666 --> 00:24:20,896
for particular minorities
in science.

444
00:24:21,176 --> 00:24:22,946
You can see it when you're
in the science classes.

445
00:24:22,946 --> 00:24:25,616
You can see it when
you're in study groups.

446
00:24:25,926 --> 00:24:28,096
You can see it when you're
looking at your professors.

447
00:24:28,616 --> 00:24:31,066
And I'm not just talking
about racial minorities.

448
00:24:31,066 --> 00:24:33,856
I'm talking about a lot of
under represented minorities

449
00:24:33,856 --> 00:24:36,596
in the sciences,
like race is a factor

450
00:24:36,906 --> 00:24:39,286
but gender, sexual orientation.

451
00:24:39,286 --> 00:24:43,426
>> I learned cultural
humility in two places,

452
00:24:43,896 --> 00:24:47,046
by my own culture being
Cambodian and Southeast Asian.

453
00:24:47,636 --> 00:24:50,406
Not knowing anything about
it my folks roasting me

454
00:24:50,406 --> 00:24:52,356
about I'm not speaking well.

455
00:24:52,976 --> 00:24:57,496
And then after going to
college and learning about it

456
00:24:57,496 --> 00:25:00,136
in anthropology and
interviewing my parents

457
00:25:00,786 --> 00:25:03,586
about their experience
it opened my eyes.

458
00:25:03,976 --> 00:25:09,416
>> One of the things that I
have learned in the past couple

459
00:25:09,496 --> 00:25:13,236
of years I want to say is just
listening to what I'm saying.

460
00:25:13,236 --> 00:25:15,726
And I mean like seriously
listening to what I'm saying.

461
00:25:16,486 --> 00:25:19,616
And one of the things that I
have learned to listen to is

462
00:25:19,616 --> 00:25:25,276
when I say I, I believe this,
I do this, and listen how

463
00:25:25,276 --> 00:25:27,806
that is very different
from the we.

464
00:25:27,806 --> 00:25:32,166
We I hear a lot in the
news, we Americans, right?

465
00:25:32,646 --> 00:25:36,226
Like we, who is the
we speaking about.

466
00:25:36,386 --> 00:25:39,676
It's to think about and listen
to when we use the I and the we.

467
00:25:39,676 --> 00:25:43,206
>> Growing up I was like
always interested in culture

468
00:25:43,206 --> 00:25:46,766
and other religions and just
really learning about things

469
00:25:46,926 --> 00:25:48,136
from other backgrounds.

470
00:25:48,506 --> 00:25:53,386
And so I just figured that
made my culturally humble

471
00:25:53,946 --> 00:25:55,986
because I had an interest.

472
00:25:55,986 --> 00:26:00,546
And so after studying a year in
West Africa I came back like,

473
00:26:00,546 --> 00:26:03,516
oh my God, I don't know
anything, I don't know anything

474
00:26:03,516 --> 00:26:06,786
about Black people, I don't
know anything about Africans.

475
00:26:06,786 --> 00:26:08,676
I mean it just list
shifted my world.

476
00:26:12,586 --> 00:26:18,796
>> Peace. I think when I am
sitting in a place of humility

477
00:26:19,366 --> 00:26:24,766
that there's a quiet and a
spaciousness and an okayness

478
00:26:25,336 --> 00:26:29,926
and ease that is just
close to peace with being

479
00:26:29,926 --> 00:26:32,836
with another person
that I can imagine.

480
00:26:34,856 --> 00:26:36,116
>> If I have to think about it

481
00:26:36,116 --> 00:26:40,896
as a road then I think I would
think about I would think

482
00:26:40,936 --> 00:26:43,396
about it as a road that spirals.

483
00:26:47,866 --> 00:26:51,916
And a spiral actually doesn't
-- to me in a dance context,

484
00:26:52,216 --> 00:26:55,056
a spiral that comes up
has to come down as well.

485
00:26:55,056 --> 00:26:56,176
It's sort of a continuous loop.

486
00:26:57,526 --> 00:27:01,786
And along the continuous
loop many things happen

487
00:27:01,786 --> 00:27:04,166
and many forces may
change the shape of it

488
00:27:05,046 --> 00:27:07,056
or the depth and reach of it.

489
00:27:07,446 --> 00:27:10,356
>> Cultural humility is
definitely a journey for me,

490
00:27:10,356 --> 00:27:12,416
and it's definitely a journey
that I know there's going

491
00:27:12,416 --> 00:27:14,516
to be come challenges
and I'm ready for those.

492
00:27:15,206 --> 00:27:19,146
And I know every challenge
I'm going to learn from.

493
00:27:19,486 --> 00:27:24,686
And I think it's a process that
I have to go through every day

494
00:27:24,876 --> 00:27:26,416
and that I'm okay
with going through.

495
00:27:26,416 --> 00:27:28,456
And it actually makes
me stronger and smarter

496
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and I hope wiser
than I was yesterday.

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