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Positive effect of stigma on group formation

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How can stigma be helpful in taking positive steps and arriving at strategies that will have a beneficial impact on aids.

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This solution discusses the positive impact that stigma can have on the formation of groups. The text contains 169 words.

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Let us begin by considering stigma as a general category creator: "Jews are evil"; "gypsies are thief's"; "people having psoriasis are dirty"; "AIDS people are homosexual" etc. Being generated by an attitude of a so called "normal" majority, stigma gathers ...

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