Collective bullying in the classroom is a serious problem in Korea. Sometimes, older students bully younger ones, or upper year students bully new students. These kinds of problems happen all the time and everywhere. Actually, those are not so serious as what I want to talk from this point on.
The children who are bullied have their friends, however, collective bullying in the classroom is by all of the students in a classroom, and is focused on one student. We call it , Wang dda. Especially who for those students who seem to be stupid or poor; it is more serious. "Wang dda" are excluded from other students who are in the same class. Nobody talks with them or plays with them.
They are always alone, even eat lunch alone while the other students in same class enjoy their lunch with friends. In addition, some bad guys beat them and steal their money, pencils, even books.
Why does this happen? The conformity plays a important roles in this situation. At the first, some bad guys start to bother one student. Sometimes, there are reasons, but usually not. After that, other students in this class begin to conform, also without any reason.
What is conformity? Conformity is the tendency for people to adapt the behavior and opinions presented by other group members. So why we do conformity? Conformity is necessary to live the life, especially when we have no information about something.
Imagine that you are in the high-class restaurant for the first time in your life. You might not want to make a mistake or seems to be stupid even though you don’t know anything like how use the knife and fork, what is the etiquette in this restaurant, what food is most delicious, and how grip the glass of wine. Then how do you solve these difficult problems? The easiest way is that imitate other people’s behavior in the restaurant. This is conformity.
However, we do conformity, even though we have correct information, and we know what is wrong or what is right, because of normative influence that means people usually want to be liked, accepted, and approved of by others. I will introduce interesting experiment to you.
Asch, one of the famous psychologists conduct the experiment. He showed three standard lines which have different length. After that, he showed another line. The question is which line is same length with last line? However, there was some trick. The participants were sixteen, but fifteen of them were confederates. Confederates answered wrong on purpose. Asch wanted to know how many people follow other’s answers even though they knew the right answer. So how do think about that? What percentage? Guess.
In conclusion, about 60% of real participants did conformity. Why? They didn’t want to seem stupid even though they knew correct answer.
Conformity is one of the potential factors for collective bullying. Most of students don’t want to exclude or torment their friends. In addition, they know those kinds of behavior are bad. However, the desire of being liked, accepted, and approved of by other people is much stronger. In addition, conformity in collective cultures and interdependant cultures is more usual and has much stronger power than independent and individual cultures. In my opinion, that’s the reason why “the collective bullying” is more serious in Korea and Japan.
Both teachers and parents have no solution about the problem. The people who have solution are the students who do collective bullying. Conformity is necessary to live. Nevertheless our behavior shouldn’t be controlled by conformity when we know right answer, although we seem to be stupid, foolish and crazy.
Sometimes collective bullying provokes serious problems like suicide, violence and even murder. In conclusion, it should be removed in our society. Also, the people who do collective bullying ought to be punished by schools, or police even if they are young and students.
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