A16 Friday, February 21, 2020
Campbell River Mirror
PINK SHIRT
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LIFT EACH OTHER UP Take your kindness to new heights! This Pink Shirt Day, and every day, let’s Lift Each Other Up. Our theme for this year’s Pink Shirt Day is “Lift each other up”; a simple but powerful message encouraging us to look beyond our differences and celebrate the things that make us unique. When we lift each other up, we see past the things that separate us and see instead the things that unite us as people.
WHAT IS BU
LLYING?
Bullying is a fo rm of aggression wh ere there is a power imbal ance; the person doing the bullying h as power over th e person bein g victimized. In additional to any physical tr auma incurre d, bullying can re sult in serious emotional pro blems, includin g anxiety, low se lf-esteem, or depression.
BULLYING VS HARASSMENT Bullying and harassment are similar, yet different: Harassment is similar to bullying because someone hurts another person through cruel, offensive and insulting behaviours. Harassment is different from bullying in that it is a form of discrimination.
TYPES OF BULLYING Physical bullying: using physical them, spreading rumours or force or aggression against another ignoring them (e.g., gossiping) person (e.g., hitting) Cyberbullying: using electronic Verbal bullying: using words to media to threaten, embarrass, verbally attack someone (e.g., intimidate, or exclude someone, or name-calling) to damage their reputation (e.g., Social/relational bullying: trying to sending threatening text messages). hurt someone through excluding
WHAT IS DISCRIMINATION? Discrimination is treating someone differently or poorly based on certain characteristics or differences. Bullying turns into harassment when the behaviour goes against Canada’s Human Rights Laws and focuses on treating people differently because of: Age Race (skin colour, facial features) Ethnicity (culture, where they live, how they live, how they dress) Religion (religious beliefs) Sex Sexual orientation (if they are gay, lesbian, bisexual, or heterosexual) Family status (if they are from a single parent family, adopted family, step family, foster family, non-biological gay or lesbian parent family) Marital status (if they are single, legally married, common-law spouse, widowed, or divorced) Physical and mental disability (if they have a mental illness, learning disability, use a wheelchair)
Information provided by redcross.ca/respecteducation Preventing Bullying
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