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 gets stronger as a result of anything the government or authorities do to stop it.

Here's the thing. Anything the government or authorities do to stop bullying just results in bullies getting stronger. This is backed up by the Journal of Criminology, where scientist from the University of Texas and Michigan State found that students at schools with anti-bullying programs are more likely to be bullied than at those without.

, in Japan, is a distinctive and brutally effective means of behavior modification in a nation where children are raised from an early age to fit in, to readily meld themselves into harmonious, purposeful groups.

, in Japan, is rarely mediated and mitigated by teachers since it occurs within what is perceived as an organic, group-forming process.

Rarely, therefore, does a teacher mediate within this organic, group-forming process or intervene to prevent a nonconforming student from being ostracized or bullied. Such intervention might disrupt the whole process.

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, in Japan, is surprisingly intense and widespread, in part because punishing the deviant is more accepted among a people that share racial, clan, and cultural ties, and whose national dogma suggests that everyone is the same and shares identical thoughts and values.

Bullying exists among children in many societies, but in Japan it is surprisingly intense and widespread, in part because there seems to be no moral imperative against it. Though bullying certainly occurs in classrooms and schoolyards in the United States and other societies, its character and frequency are more ruthless and lethal in Japan, he told me. As the Japanese people share racial, clan, and cultural ties, their national dogma suggests that everyone is the same and shares identical thoughts and values. This ideology makes it easier to rationalize punishing the deviant.

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, in Japan, is not just a problem among children. It is actively condoned even in adult Japanese society as a means to modify behavior and as a tool for forcing the individual to accept the logic of the group.

In his book Straightjacket Society, the psychiatrist Masao Miyamoto describes the various methods his colleagues used to hound and punish him for refusing to toe the group's line when he worked in the Health Ministry. Bullying, he concludes, is actively condoned even in adult Japanese society as a means to modify behavior, 'a tool for forcing the individual to accept the logic of the group.' This represents a 'major difference from the situation in Western countries,' where bullying tends to be associated with young children, and where adults who bully others are considered abnormal, or even sadistic.9

, in Japan, is rarely meditated by mothers or parents, instead the child is blamed for not fitting in.

More rarely still does a Japanese mother insinuate herself or get involved: she usually does not alert a teacher or call a principal on the carpet to ensure her child is not mistreated by bigger or more popular classmates. While a European or an American mother might insist that a schoolteacher or principal take care that her child is not beaten up at school, a Japanese parent tends to accept the supremacy the more powerful group imposes on her child. Instead of confronting the school, she would more likely ask her son or daughter, 'What have you done in school to get yourself bullied?' The working assumption is that the group discerns in the child's character some inner truth that the parent cannot see.

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is not about size, it's about intimidation.

is ignoble --- we triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

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