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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.)


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