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Cultural Competence for Public Managers
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Cultural Competence for Public Managers

by Espiridion Borrego, Richard Greggory Johnson lll
September 2017
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
414 pages
13h 41m
English
Routledge
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Chapter 3

Defining Cultural Competence for Public Managers

If we cannot end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s futures. And we are all mortal.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy American University Commencement Address, 1963

3.1 Introduction

The U.S. federal government has provided much of the impetus for research on cultural competence (Bailey 2005). The federal government has also required delivery of culturally competent services to immigrant and minority communities. Culturally competent linguistic services are required, for example, for delivery of ...

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ISBN: 9781439828076