I completely agree with Satrapi's reasoning. People become standoffish when it comes to accepting the ideas or hearing the opinions of a large group, but when it is instead focused on a single person, people will let their guards down and find that they can relate to how that person is feeling, no matter if the experience has happened to them or not. Like Satrapi said, people all cry for the same reasons.
There are such an abundance of examples of this phenomenon, one of which is very common. When I was in high school, one of our classmates was killed walking across the street on their way to school. I'm sure the majority of our high school's students hadn't had a similar experience; getting hit with a car is pretty uncommon. But that didn't stop the out pour of mourning and sadness that fell over the entire school. We could all feel the pain of the one boy, even though lots of us barely knew him. It didn't matter is he was an atheist, or Jewish, was on the football team or drew anime. Such things didn't matter at the time.
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