Identifying and Overcoming Bias: Become Culturally Competent

One way to overcome your biases is to become culturally competent. Cultural Competence is the ability to understand, appreciate, and interact with people from other cultures or belief systems. Many of our biases are formed in our youths from the adults around us, television, media, news, and a general lack of exposure to people not like us. Fortunately the more positive interactions we have with different types of people, the more we see that our biases aren't true and the more accepting our brains become to letting our biases go.