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“How does one develop compassion for someone with a completely different set of values without reading something from their point of view? Books are one of the ways in which we can truly get into the heads of people we would never meet in our ordinary lives and travel to countries we would otherwise never visit.”

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The Woman Who Fell from the Sky

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“The past week, Mother had denied her a pass to the market for some minor, forgettable reason, and she’d taken it hard. Her market excursions were the acme of her days, and trying to commiserate, I'd said, “I'm sorry, Handful, I know how you must feel.” It seemed to me I did know what it felt to have one's liberty curtailed, but she blazed up at me. “So we just the same, me and you? That's why you the one to shit in the pot and I'm the one to empty it?”

“Добро предаване и разбиране на емоционални съдържания в процеса на общуване предпоставя възникване на емпатия - способност за съпреживяване. При такъв вид взаимоотношения има тенденция към разчупване на стереотипизирането на другия, към отпадане на възприемането му през някакви предсъздадени и необективни схеми.”