5 sentences with 'stigma'
Example sentences and phrases with the word stigma and other words derived from it.
• « The stigma associated with usury remained, but bankers (including the Medici family who came to completely dominate Florentine politics in the 15th century) became so wealthy that the social and religious stigma alone was not enough to prevent the spread of the practice. »
• « Also, there was no sympathy in European (or American) culture for psychological problems. To be unable to function because of trauma was to be "weak" or "insane", with all the social and cultural stigma those terms invoked. »
• « Supporters of antislavery fervently opposed its westward expansion because, they argued, slavery would degrade white labour and reduce its value, cast a stigma on hard-working whites, and deprive them of the opportunity for economic advancement. »
• « Ordinary workers also suffered; no one paid a white man a decent wage when a slave worked for nothing. When work was associated with the loss of freedom, argued pro-slavery advocates, all white workers bore a stigma that marked them as little better than slaves. »