Hello Square Xenosys Is Bullying Again
Answerman How Bad Is Bullying In Japan?
past Justin Sevakis, 
Lisa asks:
Is girls ganging up on other girls simply for talking to, or liking the nearly popular guy in school, every bit seen in so many anime shows, actually a thing in Japan? Then frequently you come across these terrible situations where a lone girl is ostracized or even beaten past other girls simply because the "prince" said hello to her! Information technology boggles my mind, and I would love to understand the cultural origins behind this outlandish anime scenario.
While the whole thing with a honey involvement for the hottest guy in school existence bullied past a trio of girls who have dibs on him is something of an former hoary shoujo manga cliché, it'south actually not As well far off from things that happen in real life. What you're seeing at piece of work in that particular scenario is a combination of ii distinctly Japanese social phenomenon.
The first is the old Japanese dating tradition known as the "dear confession" or kokuhaku. The love confession, as those who've watched a lot of romance anime know, is the part where yous awkwardly take the object of your crush somewhere private, tell him or her that you like them ("Suki desu!") and ask them to exit with you. Ideally, there are scarlet blossoms falling dramatically when this happens. This is sort of the opposite of what happens in Western society, where you lot more casually ask someone out on a engagement, and if things start to happen, THEN you become a couple.
That dear confession is REALLY tough for a lot of people. That moment of confession is a terrifying leap off the edge of an completeness, and a lot of people tin't bring themselves to do information technology. They pine away in secret, and care for the object of their beat out as an idol -- this distant god or goddess, an object of perfection, just out of accomplish. And every bit anyone who's been hormonally, securely in love can attest to, things tin can get weird and they can go dark.
And that brings us to the second phenomenon, and that is Japanese classroom bullying. At present, plainly bullying is something that happens everywhere, just it'south seen every bit a particular issue in Japan. In 2015 police just got involved in 200 cases, but the vast majority of the time information technology occurs, it goes completely unreported. Nippon already has a suicide rate 60% higher than the global average, only teen suicide is a huge problem, and much of it is blamed on bullying. Every September i, when summer holiday ends and bullied kids have to go back and face up their attackers again, at that place's an alarming spike in these suicides.
Since there'south huge societal pressure in Japanese schools (and guild in general) to autumn into line socially, those who stand out are often the prime targets for uniquely psychological attacks. Taunting can terminal months or years, and stretch far outside of school walls. Often, a group of kids, or even an entire class can be persuaded to gang up on a single victim -- and since the class spends all day in the aforementioned room together, that tin actually take a toll. The victim tin be forced to commit crimes (shoplifting usually), and in the well-nigh serious cases, endure physical hazing.
This is ane downside of youth being given much more control and free reign over their lives -- there is frequently not enough adult supervision to really terminate this from happening. Homeroom teachers are frequently already stressed with trying to maintain order in their classes, and don't have much training in how to deal with bullying. Teachers accept often found that intervening but made the problem worse. Many books and articles have been written about the bullying epidemic, simply it'due south not clear, despite a recent decline in police force-involved incidents, that Japan has a handle on the problem.
At any rate, it's piece of cake to see how the combination of the Beloved Confession conundrum combines with the issue of bullying. The trope of being bullied for upsetting a class's normal social club strikes a chord with readers for a reason. Kids are awful to each other around the globe. Nippon is no exception.
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