Word: stigmas
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...this book is his identification of the practice of racial discrimination as another red herring in the discourse on race. He contrasts racial discrimination—treating people unequally because of their race—with a phenomenon he defines and presents as more important: “racial stigma...
While the word torture itself has an ugly stigma, Dershowitz said he would prefer that his son receive 15 lashes with a cane over staying 15 days on Riker’s Island...
...about the aging of the baby-boom generation, predicts that retirement will look different for boomers. The first retirement communities in the early '60s responded to "a desire on the part of many older adults for a new sense of community in a society where age had become a stigma," he says. Today, he suggests, the impetus toward new forms of community has more to do with the extent to which people derived their identity and social connections from work. "Our research shows that what people miss more than anything else in later life is what they got from work...
...slowly becomes more common for young women to shun circumcision, the heavy stigma of being "uncut" is fading. Ivorian Banassiri Sylla, 34, recalls the day 26 years ago when she was to be circumcised. "I remember the blade. How it shone! There was a woman kneeling over me with the knife. I bit her; it was all I could do. Then three women came to hold me down. One of them sat on my chest. I bit her with all my might." The women finally let Sylla go, but her uncut status was a mark of shame for her family...
...labeled the N.N.P.'s switch of allegiance as "political opportunism at its most promiscuous." Members of the A.N.C.'s left-wing alliance partners in the South African Communist Party and the Congress of South African Trade Unions have also expressed misgivings about working with a party that bears the stigma of apartheid. The leader of the Democratic Party, Tony Leon, says there are many members of the New National Party who would like to stay with the Democratic Alliance. "We're going onward and forward," he says. "It is obvious to everyone now that the N.N.P. is about to disappear...