Frozen roots: immigrant community stuck in time

American culture
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When a Turk raised in a conservative Brooklyn emigrant community studies in Istanbul she realizes progress comes from a community, not a location.

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Is that a pain cry? What we want to hear about death

ANASTASIA ASHMAN
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Can grief-illiterate Americans grieve in public — and out loud? Restricting who we talk to about death can cut us off from people unafraid to hear about it, perhaps those even able to console us.

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