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MAJOR PROBLEMS IN INDIA BULLYING – ITS CAUSES AND EFFECTS.

POVERTY Bullying is a serious issue in most parts of the world today. In a lot of

Poverty is a state or condition in which a person or community lacks schools, colleges and other learning universities bullying is very common.

the financial resources and essentials for a minimum standard of living . Bullying does not only involve physically beating up the victim but also,

Poverty means that the income level from employment is so low that the verbally abusing and hurting then emotionally.

basic human needs can’t be met. Verbally bullying someone can be just as harmful to the victim as

EDUCATION physically beating them. It is said that there is a very thin line between
teasing someone and bullying them. I truly agree with that. Sometimes,
Lack of funds, expensive higher education ,neglect of Indian languages, somehow, we think we are just purely teasing someone for fun but, to that

problem of brain drain, mass illiteracy , wastage of resources, general person it could be bullying. Verbal bullying could be done intentionally or

education oriented this are related to poverty and terrorism because , even unintentionally. The victim in many cases does not tell anyone about

if people don’t have money the children cannot study. If children cannot what is going on and goes on enduring the bullying silently.

study well they are influenced by gangster which leads to terrorist

attacks also. In many parts of villages, girls are not allowed to study. In many cases, it is found that the victim does not report himself being
The main reason is of gender discrimination between boys and girls. bullied. There could be many reasons for this. In some cases, it is not just
one person who bullies but an entire group or class is involved. In such
So how can we overcome these issues? cases the victim does not wish to be labelled as “weak” or a “crybaby”

The solving of a social problem depends upon finding out the causes of which will just lead to more bullying. So, the victim acts like he or she is

troublesome social conditions which create the problem. Though every okay with what everyone is doing to him or her. Another situation could be

social problem is caused by multiple factors, but it is always possible to that the victim has no idea about what to do. The victim could be in a

find out the chief factor, the cooperative factors and the minor complete state of confusion and hence, just decides to do nothing about the
aggravates in the origin and development of the problem. Every problem bullying and does not report it at all. In some cases, the bullying does stop

is likely to be unique and is likely to have individualistic traits which may as a result of the person who is bullying getting bored and eventually stops

differentiate it from other problems. Many a time, the nature of the bullying the victim completely. But, unfortunately, this is not the case

social problem is such that the control becomes extremely difficult, if always. Sometimes, keeping quiet just provokes the bully into being more

not impossible. This happens when a social problem is occasioned by abusive and the level of his bullying could increase.
natural factors like droughts or floods or when the conflict of social

interests blocks the application of curative programmes, or a revo- But the main question is, ‘‘what leads to people becoming bullies?” I

lution is needed to change the existing political or economic systems. would say that there are many reasons. The most common reason being

But after understanding and judging social problems, the society has to that the bully has been bullied in his early years of school. When someone

be effective and has to take some action whether it is by attempting to is bullied, it haunts them for the rest of their life. The victim has a certain

alter the established social institutions or by trying to alleviate them by amount of fear of being bullied again. So, to prevent themselves from being

adopting measures without trying to change the existing institutions. bullied, the previous victims try to show that they are powerful and not an
easy target for bullying. So, following this fear they intentionally or
Aneesh Bhalerao (IX) unintentionally turn into bullies themselves.