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POPSHis shame is my shame Another sort of empathy, though in a very different context. Japanese tourists caught on camera applying graffiti to the hallowed walls of Florence by other Japanese tourists. Nothing is said on the spot, but the guilty parties are reported to their institutions, who then take action. Shame felt by a fellow national, and then by an institution 10,000 miles away. That is solidarity, though the word is never used in such a context.
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POPSHis genius is my genius A clue to the irrationality that sport can inspire is this: that it enables us to empathise, not with someone like us, but with someone most unlike us. Insofar as we are able to understand and appreciate what that someone does, so we are able to claim him as our own. I wonder if there is a parallel here with the unreasonable possessiveness men can have for a woman, with however little justification. The logic seems to be: I am able to appreciate your beauty, therefore it, and you, belong to me.
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