HLT150 Indigenous Wellbeing Online Tutoring

Indigenous Wellbeing

Disorienting Dilemma

Personal mindset, mode of thinking and perceiving different things is greatly influenced by one’s culture, inherited beliefs and customs. Every action performed by an individual in his routine tasks is somehow shaped in accordance with his personal culture and customs. The same cultural influence sometimes becomes a dilemma when an individual attempts to mingle in a community of a varied culture.
Being an Indian and living with a Chinese roommate is not quite simple for both of us. Our eating habits, food taste, lifestyle, and way of doing many things are different. For instance, he usually avoids eye contact while talking in person with me, I like spicy food but he never uses spices in his food. Even if either of us pranks any joke, we both take most don’t perceive it rightly.

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Thoughts and Feelings

Disorienting dilemma have a deep impact on one’s feelings. In the beginning since I started living with my Chinese roommate, I didn’t realize that how difficult it would be for both of us to clearly communicate, share ideas, knowledge or even jokes. Living with someone belonging to a different culture, having beliefs, and mindset in contrast of your own, gives a feeling of being an alien in an unknown world.

Rational discourse

The mismatch of personal perceptions or meaning structure with the social environment restricts one’s performance or ability to contribute skills and knowledge effectively working in a varied environment. To overrule the impact of differences in personal meanings with the social environment, knowledge gained through experiences is quite helpful. It is from the feelings and thoughts emerging from this reflection that generalizations or concepts can be generated (Gibbs, 2013). Learning through their experience and reflecting the same experience in practical fields have aided many professionals to successfully cope up with the issues of Disorienting dilemma.

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Plan

To avoid disorienting dilemma, it is important that one should be well conversant with the cultural values, beliefs and norms of the environment or community he is living in or working. To be a better practitioner in indigenous health my priority would be to acquire maximum knowledge regarding the cultural beliefs, customs, practices and living styles of the people with whom I would be dealing with in my future career.