Similarly, the bulk of a community should not have the right to exile a family from a neighborhood, simply based on their difference of ethnicity. Along with this, members of various churches discriminate against the pregnant and parenting teens by labelling them as “sinners”, “impure,’ and even “sluts”. This, the author would likely define as a “rejective category.” According to Allport, “When these labels are employed, we can be almost certain that the speaker intends not only to characterize the person’s membership, but also to disparage and reject him” (327). Whether intended or not the members of the church are putting these teens in an outcast category by putting these harsh labels on them and placing them into an excluded
Similarly, the bulk of a community should not have the right to exile a family from a neighborhood, simply based on their difference of ethnicity. Along with this, members of various churches discriminate against the pregnant and parenting teens by labelling them as “sinners”, “impure,’ and even “sluts”. This, the author would likely define as a “rejective category.” According to Allport, “When these labels are employed, we can be almost certain that the speaker intends not only to characterize the person’s membership, but also to disparage and reject him” (327). Whether intended or not the members of the church are putting these teens in an outcast category by putting these harsh labels on them and placing them into an excluded