A person's dignity is damaged, then, when he or she is publicly defamed or dehumanized, or when he or she is perceived as belonging to a group all of whose members are defamed or dehumanized.
One participant described dignity-of-self as vulnerable to damage–" [people's dignity is] there, but they may not...they may have been shot down so much that they don't believe that" – but human dignity as enduring – "it's there for everybody, it's just how you access it".
Mao forgot neither the affront to his and China's dignity nor the economic damage.
This week's paper has coverage of the response to date, the regulatory environment, and whether you should feel good about eating Gulf oysters (answer: yes for safety, although the slurping process may damage your dignity).Here, I wanted to take a closer look at uncertainty and ambiguity, which have been features of the spill since the beginning.
(50 ) Some tenants surveyed could afford a home in an informal settlement but were not willing to because of the insecurity of tenure or because living in an informal settlement would damage their dignity.
"This kind of behavior has damaged my dignity as a woman, which should be an example to our children," Lario wrote.
When an Asian serial-killer movie is deemed to be so violent that it severely damages human dignity — and is effectively banned from public exhibition until cuts are made — large segments of the international cinéblogosphere get very excited.
"It is true that America's dignity has been badly damaged, but that does not mean that it can make an arrogant face and force other countries to give in to its demands," he said.
Meanwhile, the actors also politically defined the corruption of the local government as deeds that undermined the legitimacy of governance and the dignity of laws, and damaged the image of the state.
When minimum wages are at best US$332 a month and many rural workers and women earn less than US$200 while the government's own figures show that a living wage is around US$800, the dignity of families is damaged but so too is economic growth and sustainability.
