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Dylan Allison
Adam Padgett
English 102
April 5, 2016

Why do People Bully Others and What Happens to the Victim?

Bullying is something that ruins the lives of many people all over the world. There is no
discrimination when it comes to bullying. Anyone can be bullied and most people are at
sometime through out their life. It is something that I had to put up when I was in
elementary and middle school. There are many types of bullying all over the world but
they all do just about the same thing, they make someone feel horrible and can lead to
horrible things in there life. Bullying can forever change your life and possibly even end
it if taken too far. People bully others to make their self feel more secure about
themselves and it makes them feel popular, The victim usually has physical and mental
problems.
Gender is one big factor on who gets bullied. Statistics show that females are at a
higher risk of being bullied than are males. The big population that gets bullied has a little
of both genders in it. The LGBT kids are the most likely to be bullied. If you fall into this
category it says you are more likely to be bullied due to the fact that you are not seen as
normal. This is because most of them have different personalities, dress differently, and
are not attracted to the opposite sex. Most of the people that are the ones doing the
bullying here do this because they say that the people they are bullying are different.
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pick on. This can cause many problems in the lives of these people and can cause
problems down the road.
One Study shows that bullying is directly linked to the status goals of whoever the
bully is. If they want to fit in with a certain group of people then they will make fun of
people that that specific group does not like. For example if you want to hang out with
the rich kids then you would make fun of the poor ones because they dont fit in with
that group. It has also been proven that they use bullying to achieve dominant positions in
their society. This is a direct example of the big bully that nobody messes with in
middle school because everyone is scared of him or her. This showed that bullying is also
directly licked to popularity. This is because everyone wants to be friends with the bully
because if you two are friends then you dont have to worry about him coming for you.
This basically will keep you safe from being bullied, but makes the bully want to pick on
others even more so he can gain even more popularity. This is a big reason why kids
bully and it is sad if you think about it, having to be mean to someone to gain popularity
or make friends.
One source says something that I think is very true; it says the myths and realities
of bullying. One of the myths of bullying is that the bully thinks that bullies feel higher
than their targets. They also say that they believe they are more attractive, smarter, and
better than the victim. The reality is that the bully feels inferior to their target. They also
feel that they lack things about themselves that that see in the people they are bullying.
They see strengths in the people that they are bullying that they want to break them from
having so they try too. There is a myth that If I try harder or be nicer, I can get the bully
to change. This is not true at all because they bully himself has a low self-image. This

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has nothing to do with the target its just that the bully is not self confident. If you know
this about a bully then sometimes what they say is not so hurtful. One is that bullies in the
workplace need to control others. The reality of it is that they try to seek power for their
own sake. They dont bully in the workplace to control you they do it because they want
to feel powerful. The thing with a bully is that a lot of the time they do not want to cause
physical or mental harm it is just that they feel insecure about their self. Most if the
people that bully in the workplace have been through some type of bullying through out
their lifetime and have always felt insecure about what they were bullied for. It is
honestly kind of sad if you think about it.
This source talks about statistics of workplace bullying. The job that reports the
most on the job bullying is health care a close second is education. This surprised me a
good bit because I did not think that there would be a lot of bullying within the health
care system because they go to school to know hoe to treat people. I dont see why they
would bully someone one the job. A lot of the bullying in the health care is when
someone gets moved up fast in nursing so they get a higher ranking. With this higher
ranking the people they will be working for do not accept mistakes and since they got
moved up so quick it is easy for them to make a simple mistake. With this simple mistake
the higher-ranking person, maybe a surgeon will be rude and fuss at them because they
are not ready for the job they have. This can actually hurt someone more than it can help
him or her. This study also says that the best thing to do is to confront them because a lot
of people that bully dont even know that they are doing it. They just simply think that
that is the way that things are supposed to happen. If you confront them and they are not
trying to be a bully then they will change there ways and they way they act towards

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people. One example in this study is that a woman that trains nurses was confronted
about her attitude toward the new nurses she was studying. When confronted by her boss
she was not even aware that she was being so rude. This bullying in hospitals causes the
extremely high leaving rates within the jobs inside a hospital. They say 25 to 45 will
leave within the first 18 months. This is due to some of the people that have been
working there for a long time and they think that they know exactly how things are
supposed to be run and they wont accept anything else. The high bullying in jobs is a
direct result of just someone being ranked higher than you and they feel like they are in
charge.
Today bullying in schools is a huge problem and needs to be dealt with. An
estimated 16 children in the UK commit suicide annually as a direct result of bullying.
This is not a big number but when you think about it that is 16 kids that should have still
been alive. They could be changing the face of the earth with the things they would do
but instead they were pushed to their breaking points and killed themselves. They took a
small body of teenagers and asked them what type of bullying that they have been
encountered in their lives; not being the bully but being bullied. All of them said they
have had someone bully them verbally; two said they have been cyber bullied, and 6 said
they have had physical bullying. This is just a pool of 8 teens and the percentages are
high on verbal and physical bullying. Bullying in schools need to be stopped because all
the things that are done to a teen will effect them for the rest of their lives. As read earlier
it might even lead them to taking their own life. School is where bullying all starts and it
leads them to possibly bullying when they get older on the job. This is a devastating fact
that most of the kids being bullied in school will grow up to be a bully in their workplace.

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Most of them wont know it because they just think it is normal behavior but it will affect
the people on the job with them. This can lead people on the job to become depressed or
have many more issues. In school it is possible for the kid to slip off into a deep
depression and shut everyone out. That is something that would be horrible to ruin a kids
life when he is so young and so fragile. To push someone to a point to when they are 20
years and under to not thinking that the rest of their life is worth living because of what
someone has done to them.
Cyber bullying is on the rise and it is an aggressive attack on someone who cant
really defend him or herself. Even with it on the rise it is still not as high as traditional
bullying. A study found that 27% of year 4 to 9 students had been traditionally bullied
every other week while only 10% had been cyber bullied. In the UK it was reported what
anywhere from 7 to 10% of students have been bullied using the Internet in some way. In
Canada it was found that the rate of cyber bullying there was 35% and that number is
staggering. This for of bullying is definitely on the rise through out the entire world. They
do it over the Internet because they dont have to do it in front of the person and it makes
them feel better about themselves. Cyber bullying is far more aggressive than traditional
bullying. This is because anyone in the world can see what you do to someone on the
Internet but only a handful can see what you do in person. The humiliation that comes
with being bullied online is tremendous. It can lead someone to not want to live anymore
because they feel that no matter where they go it will always follow them. This study also
shows that most of the bullies through out the world are males. With this being said the
amount of female bullies are on the rise. There was however no difference in how the
victim felt when being bullied by a girl or a boy. This study shows that bullies do this

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because they want to fit in and they think that is how they do it and it makes them friends.
It does not make them true friends because they are more scared of them than anything.
Bullying is a big problem here in America and all over the world. This is a
problem that should concern almost every person out there and should make you want to
change the way that you act towards people because you never know what that person is
going through. Through all of the research done the main reason bullies bully is to feel
like they fit in. Some more reasons are that they dont even know that they are doing it
and they are insecure about themselves. This is honestly sad because they feel bad about
themselves so they make someone else feel horrible because the way they are feeling.
Bullying is something that is extremely hard on someone and needs to be stopped.
Through out the world the rates are steadily rising higher and higher. Bullying works in
mysterious ways. One way is that a good many of the bullies in grade school will become
bullies on the job where they work. To answer my question I dont think there is one
specific answer to why people bully one another. There are many reasons why they do it
and that is based on what they are personally feeling and what is going through their
head. They might not even know that they are being a bully. Bullying causes a lot of
problems through out the world and we need to do something about it.

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