A health care worker tells a nurse,"It does no good to try to teach those Medicaid clients about nutrition because they will just eat what they want to no matter how much we teach them." Which of the following is being demonstrated by this statement?

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Stereotyping occurs when someone attributes certain beliefs and behaviors about a group to an individual without giving adequate attention to individual differences.In this instance,the health care worker makes the assumption that clients with low incomes are not educable.The health care worker is guilty of making another assumption as well: noncompliance among other Medicaid clients the worker has known may have been related to an inability to afford nutritious food.Cultural imposition is the belief in one's own superiority,or ethnocentrism,and is the act of imposing one's values on others.Ethnocentrism is a type of cultural prejudice at the population level which involves the belief that one's own group determines the standards for behavior by which all other groups should be judged.Racism refers to the belief that persons who are born into a particular group are inferior in intelligence,morals,beauty,or self-worth.

A Health Care Worker Tells a Nurse,"It Does No Good