Self-awareness and self-knowledge are the first types of knowledge cross-cultura

Self-awareness and self-knowledge are the first types of knowledge cross-cultural training would seek to establish. This involves bringing to the learners awareness internalized beliefs values norms stereotypes and biases. They should be made aware of how ethnocentrism that is the belief that ones own culture is superior to others operates in all cultures and encouraged to be attentive to the possibility of ethnocentrism in their own thinking. They should be made aware of how ethnocentrism may influence their own interaction with patients (p. 4).