A health care provider states, "I'm not going to change the way I practise medicine regardless of where the client is from, because research shows that Western medicine is the best." What behaviour does this statement exemplify?
A) Ethnocentrism
B) Prejudice
C) Racism
D) Stereotyping

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Ethnocentrism, a type of cultural prejudice at the cultural population level, is the belief that one's own cultural group determines the standards of behaviour by which all other groups are to be judged. CHNs who assume that their way of providing nursing care is the only right way are ethnocentric.

A Health Care Provider States, "I'm Not Going to Change