Do we really need to be ashamed of being called gambler? From my points gambling is something that can never be covered just as I do say before, but one should be happy for it because there are many people who mades a living from it except those that are misrepresenting or that are not taking proper action towards their characters on how they present themselves to people before they could see its as a bad habit. Judgement always comes when we don't gamble responsible and present ourselves properly before someone could say a bad thing towards our actions is when we might have displayed to some irresponsible acts.
Maybe some people feel embarrassed to be called a gambler because their environment cannot accept someone who gambles frequently. That is what makes some gamblers hide their gambling activities from other people so that they don't get bad words about them. Judgment will always come if what we do is different from the people around us so we will choose not to tell others. But if our environment can accept that we often gamble within reasonable limits, perhaps we will not hide our gambling activities because of acceptance from our environment. But whatever it is, a gambler must have his reasons for saying or hiding his gambling activities.
You are correct, although we should also try to remember that in everything we do there are criticism and when you don't have a thick skin to out look this people then it surely affects us why because we are trying to live a life of trying to please people around our environmental instead of focusing on what gives us money. As gambler if we think gambling gives us more money then we should be proud of it and we think we can also maintain the peace or hide from involving ourselves to be seen and regards as useless people then we should try to gamble responsible that is all we must not live to hide our habit or our identity. Okay what about those that are ambassador of those gambling site and they are making money or receiving salaries fro those site does it they should also be afraid people around them or they should please their environment?