american model of grieving

2025-04-26 12:02 Note Type: Tags: grief, culture, america

For example, many Americans continue to model their expression of grief on Jacquelyn Kennedy’s stoicism portrayed during the first funeral ever broadcast on television–the November 1963 funeral of JFK. Because of mass media, Jacquelyn’s dry-eyed, silent demeanour became a dominant cultural model for an appropriate emotional experience to grief and loss, one that is often emulated today in the United States.