A stigmatized identity becomes concealable and then actively disowned

Evidence

So being Afrikaans becomes something to be hidden, something that you prefer not to speak about (Interview extract 2). However, simply not speaking about it is not enough – participants also actively distanced themselves from many stereotypical aspects of Afrikaner identity like conservative dress, culture, language, history, and overt racism. — Cornel Verwey and Michael Quayle, Whiteness, racism, and Afrikaner…, 73

Categorization

• QUESTION: Follow-up worth chasing: what threshold of stigma converts an identity from ‘hidden’ to ‘voluntarily dismantled’? And does concealability (here aided by English passing) actually accelerate the loss of the ethnic brand?
• XREF: connects to: Proficiency in the rival language becomes the shield that cancels ethnic stigma — Cornel Verwey and Michael Quayle, Whiteness, racism, and Afrikaner…, 113; Language pride dissolves because it is too entangled with discredited nationalism — Cornel Verwey and Michael Quayle, Whiteness, racism, and Afrikaner…, 95; Denying or concealing a stigma causes more distress than acknowledging it — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 956 (+1 more)

Related

• Proficiency in the rival language becomes the shield that cancels ethnic stigma (similarity 0.84)
• Post-apartheid Afrikaners treat the label itself as a stigma to be managed (similarity 0.84)
• Afrikaner identity persists as a private code decoupled from public power. (similarity 0.82)
• Denying or concealing a stigma causes more distress than acknowledging it (similarity 0.80)
• Language, expected as core to Afrikaner identity, was instead devalued and distanced from. (similarity 0.79)
• Displaced Afrikaner racism survives as a private in-group discourse. (similarity 0.79)
• Language pride dissolves because it is too entangled with discredited nationalism (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Denying or concealing a stigma causes more distress than acknowledging it #corroborates (0.85) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 956