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...Your great task in life is cultivating your humanity,” Kleinman said. “People with stigma not only lose their moral face, but are not considered human...
Unlike in the United States, where people are born “fully human,” Chinese society demands that individuals “become human,” said Kleinman, who has spent years researching mental illnesses and violence in China and Taiwan...
Further comparing the U.S. and China, Kleinman noted that Chinese mental illness hospitals emphasize the protection of society from the mentally ill—a mindset that cultivates a perception of the mentally ill as unpredictable, out of control, and potentially dangerous...
...Stigmatization makes a person a dead door, or si menzi, marginalizing them from their families, professions, society and themselves,” Kleinman said...
...Kleinman added that the solution to the problems of stigmatization will come from “unintentional cultural changes”—which have been happening over the past couple of decades—that eventually strip mental illnesses of stigma...