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Bullying





  Bullying is an act of repeated aggressive behavior in order to intentionally hurt another person, physically or mentally. Bullying is characterized by an individual behaving in a certain way to gain power over another person.




   Direct bullying involves a great deal of physical aggression such as shoving and poking, throwing things, slapping, choking, punching and kicking, beating, stabbing, pulling hair, scratching, biting, scraping and pinching, seen enough?



  Indirect bullying is characterized by threatening the victim into social isolation, by spreading gossip, ostracizing, bullying other people who socialize with the victim, and criticizing the dress, religion or their disability. Other subtle forms of indirect bullying which are more likely to be verbal, are name calling, the silent treatment, arguing others into submission, manipulation, lies, rumors, staring, giggling, laughing at, saying certain words that trigger a reaction from a past event, and mocking.


  In such groups where the 'bully mentality' has been allowed to become a dominant factor in the group environment, a steady stream of injustices and abuses often becomes a regular and predictable group experience.



  Those who have been the targets of bullying can suffer from long term emotional and behavioral problems. Bullying can cause loneliness, depression, anxiety, lead to low self-esteem and increased susceptibility to illness or suicide.



  The reversal of a 'bully mentality' within a group is usually an effort which requires much time, energy, careful planning, coordination with others, and usually the undertaking of a certain 'risk'.







   Jingoism is defined as the extreme belief that your own country is always best, which is often shown in enthusiastic support for a war against another country. This form of ultra-nationalistic rhetoric is sometimes a precursor to warfare. It is often a part of a campaign by one country to impose its will upon another country by various means of extraordinary coercion, with threats of force, or ultimately by force itself if all other means may be seen as unsuccessful. Some examples of diplomatic coercions might be to threaten to with-hold aid and grants to a smaller country or to threaten with exclusion from a trading organization, or other similar economic threats.



   Hazing is an often ritualistic test which may constitute harassment, abuse, or humiliation with requirements to perform meaningless tasks; sometimes as a way of initiation into a social group. The term can refer to either physical (sometimes violent) or mental (possibly degrading) practices. It is a subjective matter where to draw to line between 'normal' hazing (somewhat abusive) and a mere rite of passage (essentially bonding; proponents may argue they can coincide), and there is a gray area where exactly the other side passes over into sheer degrading, even harmful abuse that should not even be tolerated if accepted voluntarily.



   One revenue generating scheme often employed by underworld figures is sometimes referred to as the protection racket scheme. In this scheme, local businesses are forced to regularly pay a local underworld figure a certain portion of their profits. The alternative to paying such a 'protection-fee'  is usually the threat of some form of costly vandalism, theft or even the bodily injury of the non-submitting business operator or his family.




  Bystanders to bullying activities are often unable to recognize the true cost that silence, regarding the bullying activities, has to both the individual and to the group.





     Canadian educator Bill Belsey says cyberbullying involves the use of information and communication technologies such as e-mail, cell phone and pager text messages, instant messaging, defamatory personal Web sites, blogs, online games and defamatory online personal polling Web sites, to support deliberate, repeated, and hostile behavior by an individual or group, that is intended to harm others.



Bullies will even create blogs to intimidate victims worldwide.





   The children's charity Act Against Bullying was set up in 2003 to help children who were victims of bullying by researching and publishing coping skills.





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