Poll: US vs UK Bullying Experiance- Which is worse?

[The White Hunter]

Well, that makes me feel better. I mean, I feel bad for you, but better about my situation.

Hey don't worry about this was years ago, I got big and strong and fought back.

Bullying is shit everywhere really.

 

[Aerosteam]

Judging by movies and TV shows, there's a lot more variety in bullying in the US than UK. There's no wedgies, stink bombs, heads shoved in toilets and lethal weapons here in the UK at school.

 

[Offworlder_v1legacy]

here's a chart from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2747624/

Huh, Lithuania, who would have thought.

OT: I'm not from either but from what I understand they both have their bullies in different forms and severities, but from the videos I've seen they're nowhere near as funny as Australian bullies. Trying to be bogans, idiots.

 

[Korolev]

Australia is somewhat like the UK, so the bullying would probably not be as bad as the US. Of course, the bullying problem in Australia have been getting worse since I left school all those years ago.

From what I've heard from my American friends, bullying in the US can be really bad (as in, gang-fights, stabbings, broken bones constantly) or barely a problem (light teasing, etc). So it's really variable and it depends on where you go.

From what I've heard from my UK friends, bullying tends to be relatively light for the most part, and only serious in some very economically depressed areas.

 

[Frankster]

The thing is unless one went to both US and UK schools, all we have to base our impressions on is media representations of bullying and our generalizations/stereotypes regarding the country we don't know.

Most are gonna say US as that's the media representation we have, that US schooling is all cliquey and jocks routinely give wedgies to "nerds" before going out with their blonde cheerleader girlfriend who is gonna dump him for another guy next week when the guy isn't the "star quarterback" anymore.

By comparison media representations of uk bullying is more "mild", but doesn't make bullying actually milder for the rl bullied victims, we get horror stories in uk too after all.

But guess if we are gonna talk sheer numbers, USA wins by default, way bigger country with more people after all.

 

[likalaruku]

Well, if all the stories that say tattling on bullies get you in trouble with teachers & the principal while the bullies get off scott free are true, then I'd say the US. Wouldn't put it past an American bully's parents from trying to sue a victim's parents for slander to make a quick buck either.

 

[MeChaNiZ3D]

Honestly...I'm Australian, so I don't know if I'm qualified, but I think it depends on the type of bullying. For instance, I think homophobia is more prevalent in the US than the UK. But I'm really just throwing stuff at walls here, I don't know. From documentaries or whatever, I'd say bullying in the UK is more vicious but US bullying is more widespread. In Australia, as far as I can tell, there's really nothing serious. At most some racial bullying and some people being dicks, but even then, I didn't see much of it (admittedly I'm white, but I would've at least seen it). As for myself...I was actually teased quite a bit in primary school, which led to a lot of people getting beat up, so I was labelled a bully by some people. Funny how that works.

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Australia's low ranking on this doesn't surprise me. In my school there was a noticeable race/class divide

Austria, my friend. I made the same mistake in primary school with an atlas.