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Erving Goffman

“The act of staring is a thing which one does not ordinarily do to another human being; it seems to put the object stared at in a class apart. One does not talk to a monkey in a zoo, or to a freak in a sideshow— one only stares.”

Erving Goffman, Behavior in Public Places: Notes on the Social Organization of Gatherings
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