Word: stigmas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nonetheless, there is something of a stigma upon a footballer from an Ivy League school...
Curry said the Ivy stigma has deepened in the past several years, despite the advent of more Ivy League players...
...Hollywood is the greatest stigma for film studies in this country--and yet without Hollywood even I wouldn't exist. This is one of the dialectics of our profession. When my colleagues finally realize that I'm involved in studying cinema by itself, they immediately ask, 'What did you think of Star Wars?'" He throws up his hands and gestures helplessly...
...work at the housing authority makes him believe Spanish-speaking people have no more problems with housing discrimination than any other low-income group, certainly not in public housing in Cambridge. If Hispanics have more trouble in the private housing market, it may be because of "a cultural stigma against what Hispanics do in their homes," says Trillo. "We are loud, we talk very loud, and that scares people. It's a cultural thing. When I'm with Anglo friends I'm very calm, talking like I just got out of college. But when I'm with Hispanics, suddenly...
Like many Boer Afrikaners (Boer is the name taken by the Voortrekkers and their descendants), Van Tonder is troubled by the stigma that has become attached to their history. "We were people who did not want to enslave a black tribe," he says. "We are being accused by every country on earth of being Nazis and oppressors. We came here alone. We never conquered any other nation. We have no blood on our hands...