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Culture Impacts How We Grieve

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This article was co-authored with NaYeon Yang, a doctoral student in Counseling Psychology at The University of Maryland.

NaYeon researches grief.  Minho recently went to his close friend’s funeral in Virginia. As a first-generation Korean immigrant in the United States, he was surprised to see how his American friends openly talked about their friend’s unexpected death and their feelings around it.

When he lost his father to cancer in South Korea, others avoided talking about the death. Instead, his family and friends gathered to spent time together more frequently, as if they were trying to comfort him with action rather than words.

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