Informative Article About Bullying
Bullying a Social Issue
Bullying a Social Issue
Have you ever heard about Amanda Todd, a 15 years old Canadian girl who took her life away, on October 2012, because of cyber bullying. Before her suicide, Amada decided to post a video telling her story about how she was blackmailed, physical and psychological abused.
Bullying is a social problematic and a global issue which touches most of the population, because it does not only happen at schools, you can also be witness of this in companies, or any other community. The website Bullying.org defines bullying as “a learned behavior. It is when a person or group tries to hurt or control another person in a harmful way.”
Rosa Castillo (2013), teacher of a public school in Bogotá, Colombia, said that “bullying is an action which lasts on kid for a long time, and this is one of the reasons why students start a low performance on schools”. According to stopbullying.gov, the types of bullying included, verbal bullying, is tell bad things to someone (name-calling, teasing); social bullying, involves damage somebody´s reputation (embarrass a person in public, spread a gossip, leaves somebody aside); and the last type is physical bullying, hurts somebody´s objects or body (punching, break of stuff).
Furthermore, the increases of technology uses on young population and the lack of parents control about it, is making easier to develop a field of bullying on the web. This type of bullying is known as ciberbullying, which take place at using the electronic device and social networks. This kind of bullying is a little bit harder with the victims, as it could happen 7/24 (7 days a week and 24 hour a day), also ciberbullying spread fast all on the web, reaching all the person´s contacts.
A lot of kids believe, that making others feel less than he, would make him better. The truth is some of this kids has an issue that thy want to hide from the others, that´s why, they use bullying as a defense mechanism. Another
Bullying a Social Issue
Have you ever heard about Amanda Todd, a 15 years old Canadian girl who took her life away, on October 2012, because of cyber bullying. Before her suicide, Amada decided to post a video telling her story about how she was blackmailed, physical and psychological abused.
Bullying is a social problematic and a global issue which touches most of the population, because it does not only happen at schools, you can also be witness of this in companies, or any other community. The website Bullying.org defines bullying as “a learned behavior. It is when a person or group tries to hurt or control another person in a harmful way.”
Rosa Castillo (2013), teacher of a public school in Bogotá, Colombia, said that “bullying is an action which lasts on kid for a long time, and this is one of the reasons why students start a low performance on schools”. According to stopbullying.gov, the types of bullying included, verbal bullying, is tell bad things to someone (name-calling, teasing); social bullying, involves damage somebody´s reputation (embarrass a person in public, spread a gossip, leaves somebody aside); and the last type is physical bullying, hurts somebody´s objects or body (punching, break of stuff).
Furthermore, the increases of technology uses on young population and the lack of parents control about it, is making easier to develop a field of bullying on the web. This type of bullying is known as ciberbullying, which take place at using the electronic device and social networks. This kind of bullying is a little bit harder with the victims, as it could happen 7/24 (7 days a week and 24 hour a day), also ciberbullying spread fast all on the web, reaching all the person´s contacts.
A lot of kids believe, that making others feel less than he, would make him better. The truth is some of this kids has an issue that thy want to hide from the others, that´s why, they use bullying as a defense mechanism. Another
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