055 A history of emotion
The British Museum Membercast
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The History of Shame in Japan
Shame is an interesting one because it's a driving force that nobody likes when i write about particularly china and japan. The feeling of shame in the case of japan was they'd lost a type of shame that it's very important to samurai code samurai culture. It's tapping into that to drive japan forwards and say we don't want to be the same in china using the revolutionary forces of Mao using shame.
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