Word: stigmas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anyone listening? Some students say country's longtime stigma is wearing...
...course also educated physicians about the support groups for genetic disease victims and the role of genetic counselors, who advise parents on genetic testing, help them decide whether or not to have children and help them cope with the stigma of being a disease carrier...
Then Dan Quayle, followed by professional welfare basher Charles Murray, decided that the old stigma against the out-of-wedlock was in urgent need of revival. They argue that "illegitimate" babies are clogging the welfare rolls, and that welfare, perversely, is an incentive for the production of more of them. According to one online database, the number of newspaper articles linking welfare and "illegitimacy" hovered at about 100 a year or fewer between '90 and '93 and then jumped to 157 for the first six months of '94 alone...
Students say interracial relationships can carry a social stigma, including director Spike Lee's notion--developed in the movie "Jungle Fever-that people date interraciallybecause of an idealized notion or curiosity aboutanother race...
...date interracially, you worryslightly about [the Jungle Fever Stigma], howpeople may respond in their perception of you,"Gubbins says...