When a home-bound client expresses past-oriented ancestral heritage and family rituals, the nurse recognizes that the client is expressing:

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Ethnicity or ethnic identity refers to self-conscious, past-oriented form of identity based on a notion of shared cultural (and perhaps ancestral) heritage, and current position in larger society. Race is based on biologic characteristics; assimilation refers to new customs and attitudes that are acquired through contact and communication among persons of a particular culture; subculture refers to a group of people within a culture who have ideas and beliefs that are different from the rest of that society.

When a Home-Bound Client Expresses Past-Oriented Ancestral Heritage and Family