Justice in a Multi-Cultural U.S.A. Glynis Ross - Munro Competency - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Justice in a Multi-Cultural U.S.A. Glynis Ross - Munro Competency & Performance Solutions

Overview & Objectives Tampa Bay - A multicultural region What is culture? Why are we so unaware of it? Layers or strata of culture Culture in your profession, organization, and world What is cultural fluency? Paths of growth for the judicial community.

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We take culture for granted What Water? Hi Fish! how is the water?

Most can’t explain culture We can’t Others can’t either

Culture is.... • A learned, shared system of values. • A world-view, developed as a system for surviving. • A world of assumptions. “How we do things around here.” “How business is done here.” • What we talk about or don’t talk about, how words are used, and what they mean. • Culture can be national, regional, ethnic, linguistic, generational, gender, profession, (dis)ability, corporate.

The culture iceberg • What you can see or hear - obvious to the casual observer. How we look, dress, act. Art, traditions etc. • Unspoken but accessible . Social rules, core values to live, work, socialize. Social interaction. Facial expressions and eye contact. Language. Tempo of work. Beauty. • Subconscious. Deep, learned beliefs. What is good, right, desirable, and acceptable. What is bad, wrong, undesirable, and unacceptable.

The culture iceberg • What you can see or hear . • Unspoken but accessible . • Subconscious.

Professional Culture Compare judicial culture with other professional cultures: e.g. Social services Information Technology Some misunderstand judicial culture

Organizational culture Your organization has a culture: Cultural differences within your own profession

Variation in court cultures http://cdm16501.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/ctadmin/id/986 Networked Communal High Low Solidarity Solidarity High High Sociability Sociability Autonomous Hierarchical Low High Solidarity Solidarity Low Low Sociability Sociability

Wider perspectives Universalist & Particularist cultures

Cultural Fluency • The other guy sees things differently • We tend to think that others share our assumptions. • Cultural fluency is a deep, persistent awareness of the many ways in which others have different world-views, beliefs and behaviors, attitudes, values, and practices. • Cultural fluency is a continual anticipation of differentness, and a constant readiness to accept differentness as different (not right or wrong).

The challenge? For justice to be done, in a world of differentness. For justice to be seen to be done, for a growing percentage of the population. For justice to be experienced as done. (Restoration of some sense of completeness etc.) In an ever-increasingly multi-cultural and diverse nation.

Thank you Glynis@c-psolutions.com 813-598-9184