I was bullied pretty badly, but in retrospect, I found that I also did a small amount of bullying myself. I can honestly say that I didn't understand what I was doing at the time, but it doesn't matter: the effect was the same. That's something I'll carry with me.

In other words, if I'm parsing the topic title right, I been bullied, but I also did a little bullying.

That's something I can´t understand from the american movies about high schools, the bullying and the separation in groups according to the sports, etc. Here there is groups but between friends not according to some measure and I NEVER saw someone bullying.

Me and my mates were a bullying some smaller kids (or the geeky ones, basically the "outsiders") when we were younger , now from time perspective i think it was one of the dumbest, irrational and cruel things i ever done.

Thanks

3rd Latin American to say the same...I'm starting to see a trend. I gotta conclude that bullying is not common in Latin America

I was bullied in... well, what's the school from 4-12 in english? No matter, at around that age bullyng occurs to all kids. Mostly because they are like aspergers, no way in hell they can think what they are doing to someone else or move themselves into someone else's position.

I didn't know either, what I did learn was that it is much easier to reigh through fear then try and not be picked on by ignoring/playing nice. I learned that not only big = fat, it also means big = strong.

The first time I rammed a bullies nose back at the tender age of 8, I was never picked on again

I was very mean. I would mock and pull pranks on kids and beat them up if they decided to defend themselves . I got expelled for knocking a kid out in 7th grade and once again in 8th grade for tagging the school for a whole semester. When I reapeated 8th grade the next year I changed a lot . Became one of the top students, cleaned my language some , and developed a degree of empathy towards other school mates, then teachers, and then pretty much everyone I started to meet.

In other words ... I've really changed. But push my buttons far enough and I'll show that ugly side of my face sometimes

i was bullied from 6-9th grade when i punched one of the bullies in the face(nose) and caused him to bleed. Life was alot better after that.

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MANUELF & the rest of the South Americans

I think what you're telling us is pretty fantastic. It's a great thing that this phenomenon seems almost to be unheard of in S. A.! And I can assure you it's not an American thing though (with the football team cool guys, the cheerleader, the nerd etc), I know my grandparents told me about bullying in their youth, which was like in the 1930's in Sweden - so it can't be something that came from America to Europe lol.

But I wonder how that can be? - that it's so uncommon in South America.

Someone in the thread said bullying was common in Japan. If there was one society that I would expect least bullying behaviour in, that would be Japan. But apparently it isn't so.

hatmoza said: I was very mean. I would mock and pull pranks on kids and beat them up if they decided to defend themselves . I got expelled for knocking a kid out in 7th grade and once again in 8th grade for tagging the school for a whole semester. When I reapeated 8th grade the next year I changed a lot . Became one of the top students, cleaned my language some , and developed a degree of empathy towards other school mates, then teachers, and then pretty much everyone I started to meet. In other words ... I've really changed. But push my buttons far enough and I'll show that ugly side of my face sometimes

Lol, if you would hit a muslim or some black dude in my country, you'd be in big troule. Next day they would beat you up with 20 people. No matter how much of a nerd the guy was you beat up. You never got a beating?

Those different groups like popular kids are also not in Europian schools. That's an American thing only I suppose. There are several groups though...

Emos, black kids, white kids.

@d21 How would he know my sister who back then was in Kindergarten?