Pride movement

Pride movements are responses to biased treatment of a group or class of people. The pride movement itself asserts pride in the group or class identity, including its history, attributes, members of the group, and so on. It suggests a strong sense of self-respect and a refusal to feel shame or to have one's group disrespected.

Pride movements are an aspect of identity politics. A pride movement can apply to any kind of group or class:

• groups and classes that face significant social, legal, and economic discrimination (such as African-Americans in the US; women in most parts of the world; queers in most parts of the world);
• groups and classes that potentially face significant discrimination (such as atheists, members of minority religions or politics, other sexual minorities, members of some occupations, fat people, people with certain illnesses);
• groups and classes that face relatively minor discrimination, such as embarrassing stereotypes (for instance, Irish-Americans, who were discriminated against in the late 19th century but who today face little or no discrimination of any sort; remnants of historical discrimination remain in song and language (such as "paddy wagons"; librarians, who are often unhappy with the stereotype that they are prissy spinsters with their hair in buns; SF fans, comic book fans, and computer nerds, who have similarly faced stereotypes and caricatures on The Simpsons)
• groups or classes of any other sort; for instance, citizens of a country are often encouraged to feel "nationalism", a type of pride towards one's "nation" (government, history, land, ethnic people, military forces, military interventions and excursions