March 27, 2005 at 12:00 am #33191
aysha
Participant
I have to admit I’ve never seen a significant difference concerning races and funerals. Things usually vary according to belief systems. I suspect there just happens to be a large population of certain religions in your area. Just because someone is Irish doesn’t mean they will automatically have a ‘wake’. However, the majority of Catholic Irish-heritaged people I know do have wakes. So I always tie things together not by race, but by religion.