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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Tralfamadore
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Tralfamadore
Posts: 10,343
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Originally Posted by Malza
Let's see...
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Bullying Definition
Bullying is an act of repeated aggressive behavior in order to intentionally hurt another person, physically or mentally. Bullying is characterized by an individual behaving in a certain way to gain power over another person
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I don't see any of that happening to Sam
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobbing
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Though the English word mob denotes a crowd, often in a destructive or hostile mood, German, Polish, Italian and several other European languages have adopted mobbing as a loanword to describe all forms of bullying including that by single persons. The resultant German verb mobben can also be used for physical attacks, calumny against teachers on the internet and intimidation by superiors, with an emphasis on the victims' continuous fear rather than the perpetrators' will to exclude them. The word may thus be a false friend in translation back into English, where mobbing in its primary sense denotes a disorderly gathering by a crowd and in workplace psychology narrowly refers to "ganging up" by others to harass and intimidate an individual.
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