Sentences with phrase «false cultural assumptions»

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It shows that when we label a cultural group as «individualist» or «collectivist», this can lead us to make a lot of false assumptions about how people in that group will see themselves, and so we may wrongly predict how they might respond to our communications or interventions.

In Aboriginal health research, there is a legacy of mistrust of researchers, who have often made false assumptions and misunderstood the values and practices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures by approaching them through their own cultural lens.1 There are ongoing concerns from Indigenous peoples that communication by researchers is poor, consultation is inadequate, values are violated by inadvertent cross-cultural insensitivity, and the research often fails to benefit the community.1