3. I've had that same experience myself, feeling guilty & nervous whenever a fellow Sikh does something terrible.
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4. Or consider wave of shame/guilt/sorrow that overtook Koreans and Korean-Americans after Seung-Hui Cho's shooting spree at Virginia Tech.
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@Wicked223: "not just a Jewish thing - black people feel that all the time"2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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6. This sort of collective mortification seems universal except, interestingly, among WASPs.
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7. When Conrad Black went to jail, I didn't notice any WASP Canadians saying, "my God, he's making us look bad."
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@ivortossell@dkaszor It is a fuzzier identity, but lack of collective shame there even when identity was more firm.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@ivortossell @dkaszor Perhaps, although even when WASP identity was much less fuzzy (say pre-1960s) group didn't have collective shame.
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