Cross cultural definitions of bullying

Cards (3)

  • Different countries use different words for bullying,in USA they often use victimisation
  • Different words can mean different things too,in Japan they use Ijime,but this means something different in Britain.Japan is more about group harmony
  • Its no surprise that the definitions and ideas about bullying are different between cultures,it makes a problem for researchers when they try to compare bullying between different contries