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>vicarious embarrassment Boy did I hate this one being taught to me back in the day, by my country's first privately owned TV channel.
by balamatom 1y ago
>vicarious embarrassment
Boy did I hate this one being taught to me back in the day, by my country's first privately owned TV channel.
- b2ccb2 1y agoIn German we have a word more specific, I'd argue: "Fremdschämen". It means literally "foreign-shame". It is the feeling of exactly that, seeing someone doing something embarrassing, and feeling ashamed for them in their perspective. Which I would say is a form of empathy.