EFECTUL STIGMATULUI SOCIAL ASUPRA COPIILOR ȘI ADOLESCENȚILOR ROMI
The Effect of Social Stigma on Roma Children and Adolescents

Summary/Abstract: Language is a key factor in shaping one’s own cultural perception and attitudes and beliefs about cultural groups - in short, in generating social stigmas. This fact is evident, among others, in the way we label the Roma by calling them “(h)arapină, aripată, balaoacheș, balaur, barabușter, baragladină, baraulă, borâtură, buzat, cataroi, cioară, ciocolată, cioran, cioroi, cioropină, cioropișniță, cocalar, colorat, corturar, faraon, gabor, garoi, geanău, jagardea, lebădar, maglaoi, magraon, mulatru,panteră neagră, rom, stăncuță, țigan, țigan de mătase, țigan de vatră, tuciuriu, zavragiu, or zburătoare”. The author analyzes the labels applied to the Roma in Romania from the perspective of their denotation and connotation in an attempt to identify the type of impact they can have on children and adolescents.

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