Cultural Competency is defined as, “a set of congruent behaviors, attitudes, and policies that come together in a system, agency, or among professionals and enables that system, agency, or those professionals to work effectively in a cross-cultural situations.”.” (Cross T., Bazron, B., Dennis, K., & Isaacs, M., 1989). The country I decided to research is, Germany. Germany is a Western European country with many forest, rivers, and mountain ranges. The capital of Germany is, Berlin. The official language spoken in Germany, is German. Over 95% of the population speaks this language. German is also spoken in German, Austria, and also parts of Switzerland. Of course, there are select few individuals and towns they may speak other languages or are bilingual meaning they are fluent in two languages at once. One main difference between the United States and Germany is their dining habits. Whenever you are in Germany and heading out to a restaurant you do not wait for the hostess and or host to seat you like …show more content…
Depending on your future will decide on how cultural competency will play a role in your life. If you are a student in college studying abroad, you will need to understand their cultural and the similarities and differences before you live in their country for a various amount of time. With my future plans, which are becoming a speech-language pathologist, this will play a major aspect in my future. Especially, if I am teaching or working with another adult or child from a different country. My client could even be working on accident modification and I will have to be knowledge about their country and language and compare the difference with the English language to help them to the best of my ability. Before learning about cultural competency, I didn 't realize how important this can rely on most people’s lives and major, especially