Maybe it’s partially that the dead live on in other cultures - shrines to ancestors, belief in reincarnation -and also generations stay in the same area. Whereas in the US, we are constantly reinventing ourselves, moving across the country from where we grew up, etc. There is more of an emphasis on new vs old since the country as we know it now is a relatively new one.
Maybe it’s partially that the dead live on in other cultures - shrines to ancestors, belief in reincarnation -and also generations stay in the same area. Whereas in the US, we are constantly reinventing ourselves, moving across the country from where we grew up, etc. There is more of an emphasis on new vs old since the country as we know it now is a relatively new one.