Word: stigmas
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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...
...They had created a stigma about me," he says. "I escaped from the [mental institution]; they're so stupid...
...they cannot erase the stigma. Smoking is seen, and smelled, as an insult to civilization. It is also one of the few insults that civilization can forcefully address. The mannerly middle class may not be able to outlaw assault weapons or rap music or violent movies, but it can shove smokers (usually the working class, the minorities and the young) into the pariah class, right next to the serial killers...