Exam 5: Cultural Patterns and Death

To avoid the danger of stereotyping in analyzing cultural diversity among Americans with regard to death, dying, and bereavement, one must appreciate .

Research demonstrates that African-American attitudes toward death greatly value .

Age-adjusted death rates for African Americans in our society are .

Causes of death among American Indians and Native Alaskans have typically most often involved:

Death-related attitudes among Asian and Pacific Island Americans tend to favor communications that are likely to:

Among Asian and Pacific Island Americans, death-related attitudes and practices .

Death-related practices among Hispanic Americans often involve .

Identify and discuss one lesson that is important to our course that we should learn from the account of a "happy funeral" near the beginning of Chapter 5.

A major reason that Hispanic Americans had a comparatively low number of deaths in 2014 is:

One report on death-related practices among American-Indian (or First Nation) peoples in Canada suggested the value of trained native interpreters who could .

The story about two men visiting the gravesites of their deceased loved ones with items to memorialize their loved ones went this way. One man looked at the other and said, "I would love to see your loved one eat that rice." The other man said in reply, "My loved one will eat this rice when your loved one smells those flowers." What does this story represent:

Contrast what you have learned about cultural differences regarding care of the dying and communications with the dying in any two (2) of the four groups discussed in Chapter 5.

According to recent research studies, the role of the family in African-American society is described as .

In 2014, American Indians and Native Alaskans experienced:

Mourning practices among Hispanic Americans often involve .

In the Tuskegee syphilis study, .

The vignette in Chapter 5 describes a "happy funeral." It was happy because:

Identify and explain two (2) important ways in which death-related practices among African Americans are likely to be different from those of Asian and Pacific Island Americans. Explain in depth your reasons for seeing these as differences. Then suggest how these differences in practices might reflect attitudes toward death in these two communities. (This question could be varied by altering the communities that it compares.)

Research on attitudes toward funerals among Asian and Pacific Island Americans indicates that funerals are _________.

Discuss the limits on what can be said about cultural differences in the field of death, dying, and bereavement?