 Now, it is very important to see that we talk about cultural competence, so what could be the possible stages which belongs to cultural competence. In total there are the six stages, but the process of the learning of the psychologist and staff which might think that it is useful to be culturally competent is along a continuum. It is not a process which is just a step wise, but it is a continuum through which everyone has to go through. The continuum includes six stages ranging from cultural destructiveness to cultural proficiency. So we will see that early on a cultural competence moves towards an advanced stage. The stage one is cultural destructiveness. Makes people fit, the same cultural pattern excludes those who do not fit. So it is kind of the force assimilation where we do not see those people who fit and who do not look fit, we think that this is not culturally competent. The stage one is that if you are not going to empathize with certain kind of cultural background, you may not be an appropriate person to work in that setting. And people use differences as a barrier. If we consider those cultural differences as a barrier and we cannot overcome them, then there is no point that we can fit in and work with those people. Then stage two is cultural incapacity. Supports segregation as desirable policy, enforces racial policies and maintains stereotypes. For example, lacks the capacity or will to help minority people. If we talk about our minority people and we say that we are a subgroup with whom we do not want to work, we do not want to help them, we do not want to support them. Because of the religious differences, because of the political differences, because of different health ailments, then when we do not have the capacity to work with them, then you cannot acquire professional competence at this stage. And applies resources unfairly. Like the community you belong to, you have compassion for them, you have empathy for them. You are ready to give them more resources, you are ready to handle them in a better way. But those people who do not have a connection with your community, differ from your point of view, differ from your cultural background, you unfairly treat them and undermine their problems. So these are the things which are going to create problems in general for the community and in particular for the psychological services. Stage three is cultural blindness. We believe that color or culture make no difference and that all people are same. Basically this is the very basic principle of humanity, that we all consider all human beings to be equal. And later on we call them the tag of religion, later on we call them the tag of gender and these things. Ignores cultural strength. If there is any strength of a culture, then undermine it and understand that it is not so important and it does not need to give value to it. There will be extreme biasness and blindness. Like for instance, if I talk about the Kailash culture, Kailash culture is gradually diminishing because they are not getting as much resources to sustain their culture and from there people are migrating to other countries and are becoming a part of other communities for education because they do not have better resources for education, for marriages, for treatments and so on and so forth. So a culture that has its own strength is sometimes undermined and gradually diminishes and its strength decreases. View ethnic minorities as culturally deprived. There are many ethnic minorities who are very deprived in that country and they are not considered to be a rich culture. For instance, if we talk about our neighboring country, even though there is a huge number of ethnic minorities, the culture of Muslims does not give us as much strength as it shows us in Pakistan or in any other Muslim state. So culturally depriving them is another thing which calls culturally blind. Stage 4 is culturally pre-competence. Desires to deliver quality services has commitment to civil rights. As I talked, this is a message of humanity that we all should treat equally. Similarly, there is a commitment in quality services that we should take care of all civil rights. Realizes its weakness and attempts to improve some aspects of services. Where you feel your weakness, you can learn training to improve those aspects, you can do appropriate referrals, you can improve your learning so that you can become more competent. Explore how to serve minority communities better. Then one should look for the different opportunities which in another way is going to improve that minority culture and for those people, you can do something positive, you can do something better, you can deliver something to them, so there you can do your psychological assessment or services in a better way. Rather than keeping yourself aloof, never want to be the part of them and do not empathize with their problems, then you will not be able to do your assessment. Then stage 5 is cultural competence which shows acceptance and respect of differences. It expands cultural knowledge and resources. Like I said earlier, the more you engage in that community, the more knowledge you will have. It provides the self-assessment. You can do your self-assessment to tell people how neutral you are, how fair you are, how you can relate to them and pay attention to the dynamics of differences to meet clients' needs better. That is, whatever differences you see, pay more attention to them, identify their gaps and in a better way, understand their cultural differences and provide them with an assessment. Then stage 6 is cultural proficiency. It holds all culture in high esteem. This is the stage where you think that every culture is important. It has equal respect and regard. And reaching here, believe me, is not an easy task because our biases are somewhere we hold and those biases do not allow us to reach this cultural proficiency. It is as if we talk about self-actualization in the theory of Maslow's hierarchy. Similarly, cultural competence in which cultural proficiency is a higher state of self-actualization. Then seeks to add to the knowledge base and through the services you can add and add to the cultural proficiency, you can consider all the cultures as important. And advocate continuously for the cultural competence. Those professionals who reach at the level of their cultural competence proficiency, this message gives people how important it is to be culturally competent for all psychologists who are rendering their services in different cultures.