abstract:Public humiliation is humiliation of a person before others, especially in a public place. It was often used as a form of punishment for minor and petty offences.
Abdi says that public perception could now give Somalia's beleaguered president an opportunity to erase the humiliation his government suffered six months ago, when it was forced to beg for troops from neighboring countries to keep the government from being toppled.
VOA: standard.2009.12.23
If adults are vulnerable to what they perceive as publichumiliation, teenagers are doubly so.