The nurse is caring for the adolescent child of immigrants from China. The adolescent voices distress because after living in the United States for several years, the client no longer wants to participate in some of the Chinese religious rituals that are important to the parents. What is the client experiencing?

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The adolescent is experiencing cultural change. This often occurs when a person changes upon coming into contact with new beliefs and ideas. Culture shock is a stress response that involves being unable to comprehend the culture that one is immersed in. Viewing one's own culture as the only correct standard by which to view people of other cultures is ethnocentrism. Cultural relativity refers to an understanding that cultures relate differently to the same given situations.

The Nurse Is Caring for the Adolescent Child of Immigrants