List Two Important Ways in Which Hispanic Americans' Encounters with Dying

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Essay

List two important ways in which Hispanic Americans' encounters with dying and death are likely to be different from those of African Americans. Explain in depth your reasons for seeing these as differences. Then suggest how these differences in encounters might affect attitudes toward death in these two communities. (This question could be varied by altering the communities that it compares: for example, Asian Americans vs. Native Americans.)

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Definitions:

Repression

Repression is a psychological defense mechanism where unpleasant thoughts, memories, or desires are kept out of conscious awareness.

Preconscious

Part of the mind that contains thoughts and feelings that are not currently in consciousness but can be readily brought to consciousness.

Collective Unconscious

A set of primordial stories and images, hypothesized by Carl Jung to be shared by all of humanity, and which he proposed underlie and shape our perceptions and desires.

Glove Anesthesia

A psychological condition in which a person experiences a loss of sensation in the hand and wrist that cannot be explained by medical reasons.