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Multicultural Lawyering: Teaching Psychology To Develop Cultural Self-Awareness, Carwina Weng
Multicultural Lawyering: Teaching Psychology To Develop Cultural Self-Awareness, Carwina Weng
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Much of the current literature in multicultural lawyering focuses on learning substantive information about clients who are culturally different from the lawyer, such as how the client's culture perceives eye contact or reacts to science-based world views. This article notes that such a focus sidesteps the human reality that every person reacts to people who are different from him- or herself unconsciously in ways that may be culturally insensitive and discriminatory and that this human reaction occurs despite awareness of the general values, attitudes, and beliefs of the client's culture. It therefore suggests that multicultural lawyering training should begin with …