Cultural Sensitivity in Delivery of Social Services

Abstract

A paper presented at the Pan Pacific Civil Rights Conference, Honolulu, Hawai‘ i, March 2001.

Inasmuch as spiritual development is the supreme end of human existence and the highest expression thereof, it is the duty of man to serve that end with all his strength and resources. Since culture is the highest social and historical expression of that spiritual development, it is the duty of man to preserve, practice and foster culture by every means within his power. (American Declaration on the Rights and Duties of Man. 9th International Conference of American States. 1959, Bogota, Columbia)