Bullies in Bully

No one is born to be a bully. However, bullying in school appears to be a troublesome problem that needs to be dealt with instantly. A bully is someone who abuses one’s power to threaten or insult others who are compared to be weaker. The society should put attention on those misbehaved teenagers lest there should be more innocent victims under the bullies’ self-complacency. The three main possible reasons which contribute the bully behavior of a student are peers, family conditions, and the mass media. 

We all know that the influence between peers always cannot be underestimated. Often, the one who bully others has some companions who agree and encourage this kind of action. Besides the fierce and violent trait one originally owns, peers seem to be a more crucial reason to form the endless events of bullying. According to the research, the person who bullies others will get excited and satisfied when there is someone gathering around to watch or shout. Sometimes, the sarcasm or enragement between peers will also prod somebody who is potentially a gangster into bullying. As a result, some people will say that the arch criminal might probably be the peers who support those bullies.

Another factor of bullying on campus is about family conditions. In recent years, there has been a rapid increase in the number of single-parent families and dual-earner families. Children who are raised in these two types of families usually cannot obtain enough love or attention from their parents. Since parents are busy working, they have less than enough time to build a close relationship with their children. In order to gain attention, some children exhibit bullying behaviors at school so that their parents have to pay concern on them. Additionally, living under the pressure of domestic violence can have a bad impact on children as well. It is always said that “Example is better than precept”; if parents keep abusing their children, children will imitate those violent deeds and repeat the misconduct at school. Hence, bullies are growing insidiously.

On account of busy working parents, the mass media replaces parents’ role of accompanying their own children, which can also be an underlying cause of students’ bully behaviors. Nowadays, there is countless information about violence that can be seen on TV programs, journalism and the Internet. Take the soap opera in Taiwan for instance; popular plots are rife with gangland, fights and murders. Also, the stories are always presented in the name of friends and justice, which makes children tend to solve problems with their fists. Because children watch those episodes without parents beside, no one can teach them how to tell right from wrong. That is to say, they receive those negative visual messages without thinking. Therefore, they mechanically copy all the actions and dialogues down, and rationalize their bullying deeds through their erroneous beliefs.

There are always some reasons to turn somebody into a bully. Besides peers, family conditions, and the mass media, we believe that there must still be some hidden causes to be revealed. The bullying events in Taiwan have been concerned for in recent years, and the government has also taken some actions to ameliorate. However, in addition to the redress of bullying, what’s more important is the victims of bullying have to speak out and search for some ways to help themselves.