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Paul Fussell

The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class.

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Paul Fussell suggests that sports involving rough physical collisions tend to be favored by people from lower social classes. He implies that the intensity of bodily violence in a sport is linked to the socioeconomic status of its audience.

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