Differences Accidentally Cause Bullying (an opinion to articles)

            Bullying is more likely happen to children at their school, the place whereby many children meet their society in their early life. They meet many different peoples who have different habit, different culture, different appearance, different hobby, and so on. At school, they interact to each others such as communicating for some interest, sharing the experiences and make friends. However, in fact the good relationship is not always built. The differences do not always cause a good relation. Moreover, differences sometimes build the majority condition and minority condition in a certain community.

All of conditions that are assumed as the majority will be admitted as the ideal condition. Hence, the difference which is the outlier of the community sometimes being recognized extremely different. As if the most of students in a school have the white skin, then the students who have the brown skin will become the minority and recognized as the weird (un-ideal) conditions. Moreover, if the differences could not be accepted, the children are usually treated differently by their surroundings.

As what was happened to ken (on the article bully 1) and also to Ting (on the article bully 4), the differences that they have are the most causes who make them got bullying from their friends. Both of them have their unique condition in which Ken is diagnosed with his Asperger Syndrome and Ting with her language difficulties. Then, it accidentally bothers their ability to interact with the society so that Ken and Ting are more likely hard to get acceptance because they can’t communicate effectively.

However, if all of members of a community could interact effectively to each others, they could overcome all of differences that appear. It is because the communication is effectively done and the differences could be communicated as uniqueness, not as inhibitor. Moreover, the effective communication skills should be built since the early childhood education. Hence, it really makes sense, if the early childhood teachers guide the children to communicate effectively. The teacher should build students ability to communicate their needs and wants. Besides, the teacher should also teach them how to respond the differences in order to make them accustomed to the unwilling conditions.