How about bullying?

Bullying consists of three basic types of abuse – emotional, verbal and physical. It involves repeated acts over time attempting to create or enforce one person's (or group's) power over another person (or group), thus an "imbalance of power". The "imbalance of power" may be social or physical power. –Wikipedia

Recently, more and more news about bullying are reported because President Ma Ying-jeou commences focusing on this specific issue. Especially, school bullying is the most commonly seen form of bullying. During my school time, I have seen many bullying incidents happening around me because I was once in a so-called low-level class. Here I would like to talk about two different types of bullying. Though the two experiences seem ordinary, I saw them with my own eyes.

The first type is physical bullying which is always occurred by cockerels. When I studied in junior high, there was one boy in our class who was constantly beaten up by a gang of boys from our own class or from other classes. When asking about why they bit him, those gang boys answered, "He is nauseating." What a childish reason! Then I find that boys at this age tend to show their power through violence. Maybe they also want to prove that they cannot be restrained; however, the truth is that they always flee ignominiously when teachers come. For a deeper reason, I think family is a key factor. Those perpetrators mostly come from single parent families; the parent may be busy working, hence they can't pay too much attention on children. In order to derive attention, bullies think that "I bully, therefore I am."

And the second type, I think it's more serious than the first one, is emotional bullying. When I studied in primary school (what an early age), a girl was isolated by all the classmates. Unfortunately, the instigator was my best friend, so I dare not to say any words. One day, the girl didn't show up in class; she ran away from home. For more than a month, no one could find her. Of course all the students in our class were blamed, and we learned that the lethality of ignoring people is formidable. At that time I was one of the people involved, so I couldn't really know what triggered this bullying incident; I was too small then. Even now I grow up, I can only think of a superficial occasion: jealousy among girls.

I always keep silent while there is a bullying event happened. I was the class leader when I was in the low-level class; however, I didn't do my duty to lead the class. Actually, I had good relations with all my classmates then, even with those bullies. Hence, I wanted to maintain the relationships with them. Once, they physically bullied a boy at the back of the classroom, and I just acted as if nothing had happened, reading my textbooks calmly at my seat. How ridiculous! I didn't feel frightening or panic at that moment. The only thought that came through my mind was "noisy". Honestly, I am a selfish person. In order to be friends with those guys, I didn't care how helpless those victims of bullying would be. Since I didn't want to be thought of as a snitcher, I remained silent. Certainly, that was the most immature deeds I have ever done; I am regretful for ignoring those bullying events. Though I won't be blamed for doing nothing, I hurt those bullying victims in a crueler way. I was an accomplice of the bullies; I was a bully myself.




Original discussion: http://ccufjublogg3.blogspot.com/2011/03/task-4.html