ABSTRACT
In the observation, political correctness, while necessary in some contexts, has stilted, or worse, robbed the clinical context of many potentially transformative supervisor-supervisee conversations. People care about meaningful learning, and in the service of such learning, we are not afraid to be politically incorrect. Our faith profession was countercultural and politically incorrect in each of our ancestor-worshipping homes and in Muslim Malaysia. It was a shame issue in each of our families. This was particularly so given that his father was the head of the Lim's Clan ancestral temple. Over time, however, many of our family members, including our parents, had their conversion experiences. What was once a shame issue became an important organizing principle in our families. Our belief is that no one person, supervisor or supervisee, is culturally competent on all given dimensions of multiculturalism. This understanding helps students to have realistic appraisals of themselves and greater acceptance of the other in context.
