Cultural Competence

I do not wish to upbraid those that boast about the value of being culturally competent in the helping fields to react with respect and appreciation to clients of all nationalities, cultures, linguistic variations, religious and other diversity, but I find the term patronizing and offensive.

I am no fan of multiculturalism. I lash out at those that promote cultural competency or extreme cultural relativism at the expense of promoting our superior, local, native culture, the American Way.

E Pluribus Unum was long been our cultural standard. Enjoy your own faith, culture and language, but in coming to America, our English-Speaking, our Anglo-Saxon, Western culture is the premier culture that you need to worship as an immigrant, and adopt quickly and wholly with pride and eager assimilation.

That is cultural competency, not wishy-washy multiculturalism, and as you are Americanized, we will affirm your worth and dignity as a patriotic, loyal American.