Word: stigmas
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...survey also suggests an enduring stigma surrounding HIV. Nearly half of the people surveyed reported being uncomfortable working with those who are HIV positive, while slightly more than half of the respondents did not want to live in the same home as someone infected with...
...challenging and engaging. Many describe those assignments and the experience of the course to be the source of inspiration in considering a concentration. In fact, such is the ubiquity of these testimonials that we may wonder what fuels the urban myth to begin with, beyond the a priori stigma that adheres to a required course and—as CUE evaluations show—a minority’s negative experience of Expos...
...Stories like Sharma's are growing increasingly common across India, as changing values remove some of the social stigma surrounding failed marriages and concern from activists and officials encourages more women to talk about it. As many as 30,000 women have been abandoned by their émigré husbands, according to one Indian government estimate; activists say the real figures are probably much higher as most cases still go unreported. The Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs (MOIA), established in 2004 to look after the welfare of an estimated 20 million Non-Resident Indians (NRIS), launched a scheme earlier this...
...Harvard, not being a beer drinker carries a stigma. If you abstain from alcohol—“even beer?!”—then you’re labeled a wuss. If you drink, but opt for something else, than you run the risk of being considered a liquor snob. And it’s hard not to come out of the closet as a non-beer drinker. The Queen’s Head—Harvard’s gleaming, retro social space du jour—has a beer-centric menu and a calendar...
...students among us shall be met with the blight of scabies. Soon enough, every Harvardian with an irregular patch of skin lined up at UHS, waiting to be examined by the University’s most reputable physicians. Unfortunately, a diagnosis of scabies is traumatic enough without the social stigma. The inevitable questions from roommates (“You hooked up with a freshman?”) or significant others (“Skin-to-skin contact with whom?”) might just have been worse than the neck-to-toe treatment. Yet some silver lining emerged...