Cultural Competency

Just finished a 3000 word paper on cultural competency in nursing care. All in all I found it a good thing. There was one quote in my reading nontheless that caught me off guard. It had to do with a nursing instructor who, after teaching her students about cultural competency, thought it positive that they came away from the course identifying themselves as Mexican or Irish, etc. etc. when originally they had only seen themselves as American.
My concern here is not so much with engendering a pride in one’s cultural heritage. However it seemed in this case it was done against a backdrop of no longer seeing oneself as an American. I can see why the Republicans get so upset when they read similar articles.