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

[Jjtricky]

Hey all,

Recently, I have been browsing the worst teachers/worst student threads which popped up, and there have been some pretty bad experiences in both threads. One post even talked about their desire to commit suicide. This sparked a question which I have been pondering for a while: Which country has the worse record for bullying? By that I mean, in which country do you believe bullying is more prevalent and stronger and why?

Another factor may be area, for example I grew up in a rural area, and bullying wasn't bad. None of the jock/nerd crap - Incidentally, is this a real issue in America? We did have one suicide attempt, but that wasn't due to bullying.

For citizens of neither country, which do you think it is, from an outsider looking in?

 

[Tibs]

I have not gone to school in the US or UK so I cant compare them.

 

[Jonluw]

I'm from neither country, but I imagine the US as being worse due to the whole glorification of school sports (football in particular), and implementation of social class, they've got going on.

Then again, I imagine there might be more chavs and douches in UK schools.

 

[yuval152]

Didn't went to school in UK/US but bullying here is bad.(we don't have jock/nerds too) I remeber a youtuber named ssohpkc that talked about what he experienced.

 

[yuval152]

Didn't went to school

I can really really really tell.

Beware,the ban hammer is watching.

 

[ChildishLegacy]

Then again, I imagine there might be more chavs and douches in UK schools.

You do, but a lot more people keep themselves to themselves in UK schools (or at least in my experience after attending them for what, 13 years?), there tends to be more groups where everybody knows each other and just don't care about anybody else outside that group. Nobody really gave each other that much hassle.

There were douchebags in my opinion, but everybody respected each other even if they really disliked them. Obviously there were a few exceptions, the ones that thought they were that popular that they could talk down on everyone. EVERYBODY hated and shit talked those people.

From what I've heard of how it is in the US (not that much), it seems people are a lot more confrontational.

 

[yuval152]

Didn't went to school

I can really really really tell.

Beware,the ban hammer is watching.

What, did you report me?

They wouldn't give me a warning for a harmless joke.

I didn't but that was mean,same as calling me stupid.

 

[tippy2k2]

I doubt anyone is going to be able to give you a good answer unless there is a teacher who has taught at both places. If you're from the US, you're not going to understand bullying in the UK. If you're from the UK, you're not going to understand bullying in the US. If you're from neither, you're not going to understand either.

I live in the US and I believe that US bullying is worse because I've never heard of a lot of bullying in the UK. However, as an American, I realize that I would hear about bullying here more because it'll be reported a lot more.

 

[Duskwaith]

There were douchebags in my opinion, but everybody respected each other even if they really disliked them. Obviously there were a few exceptions, the ones that thought they were that popular that they could talk down on everyone. EVERYBODY hated and shit talked those people.

Pretty much this. You always get one group who think they are amazing and more worthy of respect than everyone else, they always seem to take over the formal(prom) committees that end up going to a venue no one wants to go to and give out awards based on their own small group of friends, usually at the expense of groups deemed undesirable.

As for bullying well my school came down hard on it and rightly so. However before i left school some complete attention whore in my year tried to get my for bullying on two occasions because i called him out when he would make up stories up about his mum being a drug addict. He then tried to say i was making these stories up when i told the school authorities when they tried to land me for bullying.Ridiculous.

Bullying still remains a largely grey area to me though, outside of full on beating the crap out of someone and verbally abusing them to an unacceptable extent; firing the occasional bit of banter shouldn't be seen as bullying or people will be afraid to talk to one another.

If you say something that is knobish or makes you look/sound like a knob and I call you a knob for it. It shouldn't qualify as bullying, it should qualify as someone being a knob

 

[Sizzle Montyjing]

I would assume to US...
Never really been much of a problem for most people over here, that and homophobia is a lot more common in the US than in the UK from what I can tell.

 

[Jamieson 90]

I am English and have lived in the UK all my life, and from what I have heard, and note that could be completely inaccruate, I believe bullying to be worse in the US. It just seems to be the case that sports and other forms of popularity are more important in the US, and that there are more opportunities for harassing people, e.g. no school uniforms and lockers too. Additionally English people as a whole seem to be very reserved by nature whereas this is the opposite in the US where confrontational behaviour is more expected, and yes I'm aware that I'm sterotyping two types of people but that's all I've got to go off.

 

[Ickorus]

I'm in the UK and I was bullied pretty bad but I would still have to say US is worse for it, over there it seems to be accepted as a part of growing up even by some of those that were bullied which seems like utter bollocks to me.

 

[ChildishLegacy]

I would assume to US...
Never really been much of a problem for most people over here, that and homophobia is a lot more common in the US than in the UK from what I can tell.

I'd say aggressive homophobia isn't very common in the UK, but a lot of guys in my secondary school were "passively" homophobic (as in made jokes at gay people's expense, used gay as an insult and looked down on it etc.)

I never heard of anybody having the crap kicked out of them for being gay. Although in my town I've heard of very few gay people in my generation and I think this is down to them being scared to come out, as it is full of the chavvy, homophobic people I was describing.

I'd still say it is a problem in UK schools/colleges (definitely less than in the US), but I can't comment that much since being straight it's never a problem I've had to face.

 

[Revnak_v1legacy]

I'm saying UK based on the stories I've read on this site. It seems like the administration just doesn't care over there (once again, based on the stories I've read on this site). Over here schools are pretty big targets and parents love blaming them and suing them. Fear is often enough. However, my opinion is far from authoritative on this issue, though the same can be said of most everybody else on this site.

 

[bobmus]

Didn't went to school

I can really really really tell.

Beware,the ban hammer is watching.

What, did you report me?

They wouldn't give me a warning for a harmless joke.

I didn't but that was mean,same as calling me stupid.

I'm going to attempt to give you advice, with no real offence intended - put a space after those commas.

Anyway, OT: I reckon America, for the reasons already mentioned (no uniform, sports pressure).

 

[yuval152]

Didn't went to school

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Thanks,I thought you didn't need to put spaces, without the space it looks so crammed together.

 

[Broady Brio]

UK is pretty bad. Considering, I've been bullied most of my school life. But that was due to razy lacism. I now laugh at people who attempt to be racist towards me.

I'm assuming US schools are far from what they are portrayed like in movies and such.