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Guaguacoa

(271 posts)
12. Bullying in Schools here is very
Mon May 26, 2014, 09:04 PM
May 2014

common and teachers have never done anything about it. The Number one and two reasons for bullying are skin color and at least perceived economic status. Kids with darker skin here get bullied by those even a shade lighter, most in the us probably could probably not tell the difference. This is indigenous looking kids (like my skin color) bullying slightly darker kids mercilessly. It's considered a class thing FAR worse than anything that happens in the US, one reason you rarely hear new immigrants call racism there. Most in the US do not know that. Economic is a part of that, but skin color more. Most there would probably scratch their heads to see dark skinned kids bullying those slightly darker.

My wife was bullied for it in school, the 18 year old daughter is bullied over very dark skin, I know a girl neighbor (17 or 18) that is very pretty but bullied big time. The teachers will not listen, do not care and nobody cares as it is accepted. I did see a woman go to school and outside on the street flattened a girl for bullying her daughter over slightly darker skin.

In hiring practices you can specify sex or age of who you are looking for. Most want women between 18 and 30 and fire them around 35. It happened to my sister in law that worked as an executive secretary in Mexico city. At 35 she was fired for a younger person, now she works packaging cooking pans for minimum wage. Less than 70 pesos a day at least 10 hrs a day.

So the point is that discrimination is rampant at the top so pena nieto is just blowing smoke.

They are also lying, nobody is shocked.

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Rec for visibility. K&R nt TBF May 2014 #1
doesn't say in the article dhol82 May 2014 #2
Many times, kids in school christx30 May 2014 #3
Exactly! Give kids brutal punishment!!! ret5hd May 2014 #4
NO BrotherIvan May 2014 #5
I was bullied in school. christx30 May 2014 #6
I'm sorry that happened to you BrotherIvan May 2014 #7
You can give all the hugs christx30 May 2014 #8
Exactly! Hugs or prison are the only two options! ret5hd May 2014 #9
So what's the solution? Gemini Cat May 2014 #10
Jail! I thought I was perfectly clear! Jail, jail, and more jail! ret5hd May 2014 #11
In other words... Gemini Cat May 2014 #13
Can't imagine the trauma his former victim endured before he flipped out! My god. Judi Lynn May 2014 #17
Yep. christx30 May 2014 #18
The story was covered here on DU. christx30 May 2014 #27
And sanction bully parents too seveneyes May 2014 #14
administrators tend to be extremists one way or the other: either deal with everything in house or yurbud May 2014 #15
Bullying is assault and battery WilliamPitt May 2014 #26
You're exactly right. christx30 May 2014 #28
Bullying in Schools here is very Guaguacoa May 2014 #12
So good to read your comments, Guaguacoa. Those who've read you before know you don't lie. Judi Lynn May 2014 #16
Thank you Judi Lynn Guaguacoa May 2014 #20
Kids see that narcos own the country because geek tragedy May 2014 #19
Part of it, but it goes back farther than that. Guaguacoa May 2014 #21
yes, i was probably inaccurate if I implied that this was just limited to the narcos. geek tragedy May 2014 #22
I wasn't trying to be argumentative, just something Guaguacoa May 2014 #23
saludos, i did not think you were being argumentative, i was just geek tragedy May 2014 #24
Thank you my friend.:)nt Guaguacoa May 2014 #25
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