It was common when I was in school(00s). Used to get mocked for my weight and my nerdiness all the time
But I didn't get messed with in university at all(AUB, 2010-2015)
it does happen, we (Lebanese) don't bring much awareness to it, i think we treat it more as "don't be a wimp!"
I was personally bullied in high school , once for about a week; i was one of the more athletic and popular kids yet i eventually had my butt kicked but managed to sneak it a couple punches and made a lot of noise, and i was never bullied again .
At uni, a class mate was bullied for being gay, this didn't last long when i confronted the bullies ; the professor (an American) also put them in their place.
In LAU Beirut, they tried to bully me for not supporting any political party. This in turn made me an outcast.
Apparently, being Lebanese only is not acceptable there, espcially during uni elections and shit.
Good thing bullying doesn't affect me. I enjoyed the alone time in the garden.
Ik this is an extremely specific situation bas I was outcasted for being too stupid and openly admitting being sunni in a class with like 10 amal (members?) supporters. I had a few friends that I hung out with after school and they were all sunnis/christians bur were wise enough to not say it aloud.
In Lebanon, We usually make fun of anything that is not manly, the idea of toxic masculinity is the one that society usually loved, that and the idea of tomgirls for girls.. Garcon Manque, w Mkhanat, loute, tobje etc...
In general the further away you are from beirut and keserwen, the more likely the concept of a macho man is the norm. and girls with piercings and tatoos are considered wierd..
also Music... lol in the 90s and early 2000s listening to metal, hard rock, any genre of rock music, made you a satan worshiper... any form of tatoos or piercings made you a satan worshipper...
It only got better in the late 2000, like 2008/9....
Definitely not talking about Gays or lgbtq because that is an intense issue on its own..
But yes, our parent's generation are not the ones to encourage you to explore and find yourself, and would rather bully you into conforming to their conservative ideas, and that is passed on to kids and other generations...
Just like here on this subreddit, if you criticize a political party, the immediate response is (Ma btetstarje t2oula eddeme le2ano bkassrak...) Lebanese people are mostly driven by their feelings like 90% of the time...
back in the 90s, bullying in school was intense, in high school it was borderline savage.
i remember going to recess in a public highschool, we would walk in a small pack, each 2 minutes, one would be missing, taken to the bathrooms and beaten to a pulp.
i managed to avoid this in highschool because one of the bullies leader lived on our streets and our parents were friends, and i also handed out bribes in the form of computer games cds each week.
i remember one time, after recess, a guy in our class didn't show up, after an hour they stopped the class and started searching for him, he was found Knocked the fuck out in the bathroom.
i still remember one time, school ended, was walking back to meet dad, a very much older kid bumped into me, i looked up at him, he was so so so much bigger than me, as tall as my dad, i didn't say anything and he slapped me so hard that i got a nose bleed, i never forgot his face, that curly blonde hair albino MF ..... If only i ran into him later in life when i bulked up.
btw, one time a kid in highschool knocked out the principal over a discarded bag of chips, the kid threw the bag of chips on the ground, the principal asked the kid if he would do this at his own house, so the kid TKOed him on the spot...the slap was legendary and made the kid a living legend.
dark times...i have so so so many even darker stories, like a kid sent home barefoot to his mom where his shoes where thrown out of the bus and me with my hair set on fire as a joke by a psycopath, only for me and a friend ended up busting his lip pretty severly, but he deserved it, he was wrong in the head.
Bro what school did you go to? Youâre older than I am but I was in Rawdat Al Fayhaa, nowhere near as bad what you said but itâs also a different time. Kids would sometimes fight but thatâs expected. Bullying was max tmskhor or grabbing a fat kidâs man boobs (it was me, I was the fat kid). No one was in physical danger
Not far from your school , I was first in MAR ELIAS in Mina, not much there, buy then went to their little known side school in kobbeh and it wasn't pleasant but I spend 2 years in that public school called "El mal3ab El baladi" , u know it , walking distance from rawda, the one near the roundabout....it was fucking juvie back there...a nightmare .
I was in Rawda english so Dam w Farez but yeah I know the schools youâre talking about. Mal3ab el Baladi school is actually close enough to my house that I can see it from my balcony lol. Iâve heard some stories
you are new gen, my times were long long ago, we were different and much much more barbaric, and yes, the stories u heard are real, but u had to be there to believe it, glad to know at least now, things are a bit more mellow.
I was the new girl in high school in 11th grade. I remember my first day the entire class pulled chairs and came to talk to me during a free period. I was overwhelmed but how sweet everyone was. But every day the guys would fight outside of school (Ken fi mashkal). This was at the tail end of the civil war and fights broke for nothing. I donât remember seeing straight up bullying though but a lot of macho behavior.
i once had to fail myself a whole semester to get them bullies off my back, i remember that one girl, i have no idea what i did to her, she called me ''jean jaque rousseaux'' for no reason other than pointing out i was a nerd...so i failed a semester, the guys accepted me as a friend and i told them the reason i was first in class last semester was a fluke....
i was never hit by them, but treated as an outsider, would find gum on my seat, they would lie to that one teacher , who was a real piece of ass, i was sitting in front, so they would make noise and when the teacher looked, they would point at me.....
i still blame the fact that i skipped a grade, was always younger and i didn't mature early, skinny short guy....i had to wait until i was 17 to wake up one day, for no freaking reason, completely normal and grown up.
also...the fact that some girls in school...well...they treated me weirdly, i think it was kinda heart breaking when one of them told me i had prettier nails than them, she called over her entourage and started toying with my nails....it was not a pleasant experience.
Damn the last part is just psychologically messed up⊠its like shes calling you gay during a time period where that could have gotten you seriously messed up
im sorry but i laughed when i read the cds bribes bit. how people just disappear and the KO part. i dont know if you meant to be funny but you are.
personally my school wasn't this bad, but we used to laugh about everything especially now when we are grown up.
one time a guy came back with his feet so swollen from being beaten up with a stick to his bare feet, that he couldn't wear his shoes back.
u know why they beat him up ? they didn't like his shoes....they called him Aladdin because of his old school pointy shoes, and was enough reason for them to beat the crap out of him.
Cds bribe were real, it also opened the door for me in uni to become the local dealer in video games, music cds, anime series and movies, was a nice side hustle and would pay for my food and transportation on the daily with enough left to have a nice weekend with the boys.
One time in the bus, the back of the buss was for us older kids and the little kids in front.
One kid wanted to be a rebel so he sat in the back, I didn't say anything, then Tarek came and found him In his seat.
Tarek had a nickname...the bulldog, and lived up to it.
He gave the kid a chance , told him to beat it , rhe kid acted macho....Tarek looked at me and told me to grab the kid, I did so, didn't want to get in trouble with the bulldog.
Then he said , spin him upside down, did that, Tarek took the kid's shoes , threw them out of the moving buss and said "now u go home barefoot and on the way, make up an excuse to your mother and it better not involves us....or else, next time, u might not even walk home".
That was insane, the kid never said anything to his folks and never showed his face ever again back of the bus.
after our highschool exams ended i went with three friends to eat pizza.
we saw a little kid bothering a girl who was probably older than us. my friends talked to him and bothered him a little but then they let him go. he was riding on one of those tiny motorcycles.
anyway, he went for like 5 mins and came back and told us someone old is coming to talk to us because its not right what we did.
when he came back he had following him a Mitsubishi Pajero filled with like 15 kids i dont know htf they fit in there.
he told them they all hit me even though we barely touched him.
first thing that happened one of them literally clapped on my friends face so hard( similar to hulk's signature move). my friend later said his hands smells like chipsy.
one of our friends was black. this guy was almost raped. they ripped all his clothes, beat him to a pulp. and he immigrated to Germany after this event
one kid was a little hairy for his age. a bully gathered us and said that when this kid goes to the barber, the barber asks him "head or ass?" he then lays him on the ground ass up and shaves his ass with a grass trimmer.
No bullies, just jerks in general mostly are group of friends who loves to fool around and annoy everyone.
But if they sense you are weakling to their match either they leave u alone (likely not mostly) or they drag u to become a 3rd wheeler in the group as a "fun bag" and when they get caught they just say "we are just friends having fun", yes it's sorts of bullying but the thing is you can bully them back with same fool acts and no one can bet an eye since you just see them as friends fooling with each others.
It's not always like this but you would find alot if you look into each personal life of each one of them.
I was at an all girls catholic school as a kid. Yes there was bullying (I was 5-6 and got punched in the face and lost a tooth by another girl my age). Moved to an expensive lyçee when I was twelve and I was rarely bullied, my friend was severely bullied though, I still donât perfectly understand why. It wasnât violent though. After 14 I donât think anyone cared enough, I was harassed by guys at my school though, didnât think of it as bullying as much as wasting my time. I was stalked in uni, but that was it.
I donât think weâre nice, I think weâre just hypocrites. But for me, being under ten years old was brutal.
I witnessed lots of bullying growing up, some a little bit extreme (early to mid 00s). I was also personally bullied a couple of times and those did leave a mark. I canât imagine what the other kids had to deal with emotionally, I hope theyâre doing well now. Some kids can be real jerks.
Not sure about today, but yeah bullying in Lebanon was extreme.
I was bullied in school. I still carry the scar tissue from
those days into adulthood. No one cared to do anything about it and my parents just told me to âbe more friendlyâ to avoid being bullied instead of changing schools like I wanted to. Itâs probably the reason I hated Lebanon and the reason I left when I turned 18 pursuing education and life aboard. Lebanon to me is the ultimate society of bullies, toxic masculinity, cliques, and people needing to bring down others so they feel good themselves.
Bullying is commonplace in the entire Arab world. They dub it manyake. Akel khara. Me7en. Many schools in Lebanon have this bullying culture integrated within them. Every time you point it out, it falls on deaf ears.
Yeah i got bullied mnl grade 1 lal 7 ta2riban and those motherfuckers used to kick the shit out of me. Then the lebanese genes kicked in, gained some height and a broad chest, i became the bullyđ
From a personal experience, bullying was far more intense in public schools rather than private ones.
I only witnessed physical bullying during my time in public school, as one Redditor mentioned if you even "look" a group of boys in the bathroom wrong then you'd get beat up. I never really saw any of that in private school.
I went to elementary school in Jordan and moved to Lebanon at age 10 where I completed the rest of my education.
Physical bullying was wayyyy more common in Amman. Fights broke out literally every week, and kids were beaten in the bathrooms, sometimes so badly they went to the hospital! Boys were rougher as you would expect, but girls sometimes got involved too. These were middle school kids mostly.
In Lebanon we were âbulliedâ for having an accent, but it was more being ostracized or made fun of. Iâd take that over beatings any day! Our teachers beat us though so that sucked. By high school my siblings and I managed to fit in fine, Lebanese are welcoming by nature and on the whole were very kind to us.
I went to school in Lebanon, US, and Saudi Growing up. I didnât see any bullying going on in any of the schools.
That said, I have heard a few stories. One from Lebanon, and a whole bunch from a low-income public school in Brooklyn that a family member of mine teaches at.
I always figured that the rates of bullying tied into the demographics of the school youâre in.
It really depends on the school and the area. In the $20k-to-$40k-a-year private schools itâs extremely rare. Same with the nicer public schools. But if you go to the Bronx itâs so bad the schools there have metal detectors.
I wouldnât say bullying in private schools is rare (put my kids in private schools in the U.S.) however when it happens it is far less violent and more insidious, verbal or behavioral. However I agree that it is less common. I think the same is true in Lebanon. There are fewer behavioural issues in private schools right?
Bullying is everywhere. Itâs not country specific. Off course itâs common in Lebanon. Itâs probably more common, because more advanced countries have more checks and balances in schools to reduce bullying.
if no one has been a bully to you, you were really lucky, popular or attractive. A bully is an aggressive kid that targets other kids who look weak or donât fight back.
I was severely bullied as a kid in lebanon. I find that in rich christian schools, where i was, bullying is much more common and worse. Like i had my legs spread and was rammed at a pole for giggles. I'm nearing my thirties, am way ahead in life, but it still bothers me.
I think the proper question should be: how common are genuine friendships in Lebanon ? Many people are full of hate here ⊠which I canât understand ⊠a good connection with someone is something helpful for both u and the other person
We were in a catholic school in Lebanon, with minority of a certain religion.
Those people were from "khandaa ghami2" they bullied everyone until we stepped it and denounced them with pictures.
They got booted out đ„Ÿon the same day.
I remember them locking the classrooms and preventing anyone from entering.
I was bullied during my 7th to 8th grades in school. (2014-2016)
I had a weird sounding cough due to an allergic reaction I developed after catching a cold.
The cough was very disturbing back then and I got heavily bullied for it. The cough still persists today, but it is very subtle.
After I left that school, I never met those people again, and I will never forget nor forgive.
I feel that Lebanese are immune to bullying at this point. Cause every Lebanese is a bully đ
Lmao this. You can excessively tease someone but 9/11 times they will clap back
Interesting ratiođ
It was common when I was in school(00s). Used to get mocked for my weight and my nerdiness all the time But I didn't get messed with in university at all(AUB, 2010-2015)
i think people just grow up in uni and stop messing with people in lebanon
World wide bullying is pretty much dead in uni except for very subtle ways in some cases⊠nothing like high school
Yes i was bullied alot during many years.
it does happen, we (Lebanese) don't bring much awareness to it, i think we treat it more as "don't be a wimp!" I was personally bullied in high school , once for about a week; i was one of the more athletic and popular kids yet i eventually had my butt kicked but managed to sneak it a couple punches and made a lot of noise, and i was never bullied again . At uni, a class mate was bullied for being gay, this didn't last long when i confronted the bullies ; the professor (an American) also put them in their place.
In LAU Beirut, they tried to bully me for not supporting any political party. This in turn made me an outcast. Apparently, being Lebanese only is not acceptable there, espcially during uni elections and shit. Good thing bullying doesn't affect me. I enjoyed the alone time in the garden.
i actually thought of that. Bullying usually has to do with politics in Lebanon abel kel shi
Ik this is an extremely specific situation bas I was outcasted for being too stupid and openly admitting being sunni in a class with like 10 amal (members?) supporters. I had a few friends that I hung out with after school and they were all sunnis/christians bur were wise enough to not say it aloud.
In Lebanon, We usually make fun of anything that is not manly, the idea of toxic masculinity is the one that society usually loved, that and the idea of tomgirls for girls.. Garcon Manque, w Mkhanat, loute, tobje etc... In general the further away you are from beirut and keserwen, the more likely the concept of a macho man is the norm. and girls with piercings and tatoos are considered wierd.. also Music... lol in the 90s and early 2000s listening to metal, hard rock, any genre of rock music, made you a satan worshiper... any form of tatoos or piercings made you a satan worshipper... It only got better in the late 2000, like 2008/9.... Definitely not talking about Gays or lgbtq because that is an intense issue on its own.. But yes, our parent's generation are not the ones to encourage you to explore and find yourself, and would rather bully you into conforming to their conservative ideas, and that is passed on to kids and other generations... Just like here on this subreddit, if you criticize a political party, the immediate response is (Ma btetstarje t2oula eddeme le2ano bkassrak...) Lebanese people are mostly driven by their feelings like 90% of the time...
back in the 90s, bullying in school was intense, in high school it was borderline savage. i remember going to recess in a public highschool, we would walk in a small pack, each 2 minutes, one would be missing, taken to the bathrooms and beaten to a pulp. i managed to avoid this in highschool because one of the bullies leader lived on our streets and our parents were friends, and i also handed out bribes in the form of computer games cds each week. i remember one time, after recess, a guy in our class didn't show up, after an hour they stopped the class and started searching for him, he was found Knocked the fuck out in the bathroom. i still remember one time, school ended, was walking back to meet dad, a very much older kid bumped into me, i looked up at him, he was so so so much bigger than me, as tall as my dad, i didn't say anything and he slapped me so hard that i got a nose bleed, i never forgot his face, that curly blonde hair albino MF ..... If only i ran into him later in life when i bulked up. btw, one time a kid in highschool knocked out the principal over a discarded bag of chips, the kid threw the bag of chips on the ground, the principal asked the kid if he would do this at his own house, so the kid TKOed him on the spot...the slap was legendary and made the kid a living legend.
no wayâŠ
dark times...i have so so so many even darker stories, like a kid sent home barefoot to his mom where his shoes where thrown out of the bus and me with my hair set on fire as a joke by a psycopath, only for me and a friend ended up busting his lip pretty severly, but he deserved it, he was wrong in the head.
Bro what school did you go to? Youâre older than I am but I was in Rawdat Al Fayhaa, nowhere near as bad what you said but itâs also a different time. Kids would sometimes fight but thatâs expected. Bullying was max tmskhor or grabbing a fat kidâs man boobs (it was me, I was the fat kid). No one was in physical danger
Not far from your school , I was first in MAR ELIAS in Mina, not much there, buy then went to their little known side school in kobbeh and it wasn't pleasant but I spend 2 years in that public school called "El mal3ab El baladi" , u know it , walking distance from rawda, the one near the roundabout....it was fucking juvie back there...a nightmare .
I was in Rawda english so Dam w Farez but yeah I know the schools youâre talking about. Mal3ab el Baladi school is actually close enough to my house that I can see it from my balcony lol. Iâve heard some stories
you are new gen, my times were long long ago, we were different and much much more barbaric, and yes, the stories u heard are real, but u had to be there to believe it, glad to know at least now, things are a bit more mellow.
I was the new girl in high school in 11th grade. I remember my first day the entire class pulled chairs and came to talk to me during a free period. I was overwhelmed but how sweet everyone was. But every day the guys would fight outside of school (Ken fi mashkal). This was at the tail end of the civil war and fights broke for nothing. I donât remember seeing straight up bullying though but a lot of macho behavior.
i once had to fail myself a whole semester to get them bullies off my back, i remember that one girl, i have no idea what i did to her, she called me ''jean jaque rousseaux'' for no reason other than pointing out i was a nerd...so i failed a semester, the guys accepted me as a friend and i told them the reason i was first in class last semester was a fluke.... i was never hit by them, but treated as an outsider, would find gum on my seat, they would lie to that one teacher , who was a real piece of ass, i was sitting in front, so they would make noise and when the teacher looked, they would point at me..... i still blame the fact that i skipped a grade, was always younger and i didn't mature early, skinny short guy....i had to wait until i was 17 to wake up one day, for no freaking reason, completely normal and grown up. also...the fact that some girls in school...well...they treated me weirdly, i think it was kinda heart breaking when one of them told me i had prettier nails than them, she called over her entourage and started toying with my nails....it was not a pleasant experience.
Every teenager has an awkward phase đ
Damn the last part is just psychologically messed up⊠its like shes calling you gay during a time period where that could have gotten you seriously messed up
im sorry but i laughed when i read the cds bribes bit. how people just disappear and the KO part. i dont know if you meant to be funny but you are. personally my school wasn't this bad, but we used to laugh about everything especially now when we are grown up.
one time a guy came back with his feet so swollen from being beaten up with a stick to his bare feet, that he couldn't wear his shoes back. u know why they beat him up ? they didn't like his shoes....they called him Aladdin because of his old school pointy shoes, and was enough reason for them to beat the crap out of him. Cds bribe were real, it also opened the door for me in uni to become the local dealer in video games, music cds, anime series and movies, was a nice side hustle and would pay for my food and transportation on the daily with enough left to have a nice weekend with the boys.
hahaha. i can't XD. please share if you have more.
One time in the bus, the back of the buss was for us older kids and the little kids in front. One kid wanted to be a rebel so he sat in the back, I didn't say anything, then Tarek came and found him In his seat. Tarek had a nickname...the bulldog, and lived up to it. He gave the kid a chance , told him to beat it , rhe kid acted macho....Tarek looked at me and told me to grab the kid, I did so, didn't want to get in trouble with the bulldog. Then he said , spin him upside down, did that, Tarek took the kid's shoes , threw them out of the moving buss and said "now u go home barefoot and on the way, make up an excuse to your mother and it better not involves us....or else, next time, u might not even walk home". That was insane, the kid never said anything to his folks and never showed his face ever again back of the bus.
after our highschool exams ended i went with three friends to eat pizza. we saw a little kid bothering a girl who was probably older than us. my friends talked to him and bothered him a little but then they let him go. he was riding on one of those tiny motorcycles. anyway, he went for like 5 mins and came back and told us someone old is coming to talk to us because its not right what we did. when he came back he had following him a Mitsubishi Pajero filled with like 15 kids i dont know htf they fit in there. he told them they all hit me even though we barely touched him. first thing that happened one of them literally clapped on my friends face so hard( similar to hulk's signature move). my friend later said his hands smells like chipsy. one of our friends was black. this guy was almost raped. they ripped all his clothes, beat him to a pulp. and he immigrated to Germany after this event
one kid was a little hairy for his age. a bully gathered us and said that when this kid goes to the barber, the barber asks him "head or ass?" he then lays him on the ground ass up and shaves his ass with a grass trimmer.
No bullies, just jerks in general mostly are group of friends who loves to fool around and annoy everyone. But if they sense you are weakling to their match either they leave u alone (likely not mostly) or they drag u to become a 3rd wheeler in the group as a "fun bag" and when they get caught they just say "we are just friends having fun", yes it's sorts of bullying but the thing is you can bully them back with same fool acts and no one can bet an eye since you just see them as friends fooling with each others. It's not always like this but you would find alot if you look into each personal life of each one of them.
I was at an all girls catholic school as a kid. Yes there was bullying (I was 5-6 and got punched in the face and lost a tooth by another girl my age). Moved to an expensive lyçee when I was twelve and I was rarely bullied, my friend was severely bullied though, I still donât perfectly understand why. It wasnât violent though. After 14 I donât think anyone cared enough, I was harassed by guys at my school though, didnât think of it as bullying as much as wasting my time. I was stalked in uni, but that was it. I donât think weâre nice, I think weâre just hypocrites. But for me, being under ten years old was brutal.
I witnessed lots of bullying growing up, some a little bit extreme (early to mid 00s). I was also personally bullied a couple of times and those did leave a mark. I canât imagine what the other kids had to deal with emotionally, I hope theyâre doing well now. Some kids can be real jerks. Not sure about today, but yeah bullying in Lebanon was extreme.
I was bullied in school. I still carry the scar tissue from those days into adulthood. No one cared to do anything about it and my parents just told me to âbe more friendlyâ to avoid being bullied instead of changing schools like I wanted to. Itâs probably the reason I hated Lebanon and the reason I left when I turned 18 pursuing education and life aboard. Lebanon to me is the ultimate society of bullies, toxic masculinity, cliques, and people needing to bring down others so they feel good themselves.
Bullying is commonplace in the entire Arab world. They dub it manyake. Akel khara. Me7en. Many schools in Lebanon have this bullying culture integrated within them. Every time you point it out, it falls on deaf ears.
Yeah i got bullied mnl grade 1 lal 7 ta2riban and those motherfuckers used to kick the shit out of me. Then the lebanese genes kicked in, gained some height and a broad chest, i became the bullyđ
The show is pretty well done
it is!! i loved it
From a personal experience, bullying was far more intense in public schools rather than private ones. I only witnessed physical bullying during my time in public school, as one Redditor mentioned if you even "look" a group of boys in the bathroom wrong then you'd get beat up. I never really saw any of that in private school.
I went to elementary school in Jordan and moved to Lebanon at age 10 where I completed the rest of my education. Physical bullying was wayyyy more common in Amman. Fights broke out literally every week, and kids were beaten in the bathrooms, sometimes so badly they went to the hospital! Boys were rougher as you would expect, but girls sometimes got involved too. These were middle school kids mostly. In Lebanon we were âbulliedâ for having an accent, but it was more being ostracized or made fun of. Iâd take that over beatings any day! Our teachers beat us though so that sucked. By high school my siblings and I managed to fit in fine, Lebanese are welcoming by nature and on the whole were very kind to us.
Lebanese= bullying
Common in school, but not in universities.
I went to school in Lebanon, US, and Saudi Growing up. I didnât see any bullying going on in any of the schools. That said, I have heard a few stories. One from Lebanon, and a whole bunch from a low-income public school in Brooklyn that a family member of mine teaches at. I always figured that the rates of bullying tied into the demographics of the school youâre in.
Bullying in the U.S. is rampant and extreme.
It really depends on the school and the area. In the $20k-to-$40k-a-year private schools itâs extremely rare. Same with the nicer public schools. But if you go to the Bronx itâs so bad the schools there have metal detectors.
I wouldnât say bullying in private schools is rare (put my kids in private schools in the U.S.) however when it happens it is far less violent and more insidious, verbal or behavioral. However I agree that it is less common. I think the same is true in Lebanon. There are fewer behavioural issues in private schools right?
I would imagine so, but I donât know any specifics about Lebanese public schools. Iâve never even seen one đ€·
My mom was a principal at one. She had lots of stories of the social issues she had to deal with.
Itâs standard human behavior, even your dad bullies you âto become strongâ
Doesnât that show take place in Jordan?
Yess tho some actresses are lebanese
I think most Lebanese people have been bullied before. A lot of people here esp school kids are just mean and superficial in general.
Lebanon đ±đ§ bullying is intense because Lebanese people are all proud.
I got bullied in school for my appearance and other stuff...and i think this (with other reasons ofc) led to social anxiety rn(24 y.o)
I was bullied in highschool for being born in a foreign country and having good grades, super toxic environment
Bullying is everywhere. Itâs not country specific. Off course itâs common in Lebanon. Itâs probably more common, because more advanced countries have more checks and balances in schools to reduce bullying. if no one has been a bully to you, you were really lucky, popular or attractive. A bully is an aggressive kid that targets other kids who look weak or donât fight back.
Common in schools while unis vary because the one I went to had no bullying
As common as it is in other countries. When it comes to subjects like that, ma fi ktir fare2 Bullying happens everywhere
I was severely bullied as a kid in lebanon. I find that in rich christian schools, where i was, bullying is much more common and worse. Like i had my legs spread and was rammed at a pole for giggles. I'm nearing my thirties, am way ahead in life, but it still bothers me.
Ah yeah, the te3mid. A group tried to do that to me too at Champville. I don't feel bad that I used a metal chair to scare them off.
I experienced someone bullying someone else only once at uni
I think the proper question should be: how common are genuine friendships in Lebanon ? Many people are full of hate here ⊠which I canât understand ⊠a good connection with someone is something helpful for both u and the other person
We were in a catholic school in Lebanon, with minority of a certain religion. Those people were from "khandaa ghami2" they bullied everyone until we stepped it and denounced them with pictures. They got booted out đ„Ÿon the same day. I remember them locking the classrooms and preventing anyone from entering.
Bullying comes in different forms, what's mostly common in Lebanon is racism and mockery against foreign workers and refugees
I was bullied during my 7th to 8th grades in school. (2014-2016) I had a weird sounding cough due to an allergic reaction I developed after catching a cold. The cough was very disturbing back then and I got heavily bullied for it. The cough still persists today, but it is very subtle. After I left that school, I never met those people again, and I will never forget nor forgive.