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The Relationship Between Cultural Diversity and Bullying

Peer Victimization at Different Levels of Education and Adulthood

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Bullying is an unbalanced power relationship between the strongest and the weakest, who are unable to reply to the hostility, attack, or violence of the strongest.

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  1. Carol Raines
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  1. Henry County Public Schools, Georgia, USA

    Joseph R. Jones

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Raines, C. (2017). The Relationship Between Cultural Diversity and Bullying. In: Jones, J.R. (eds) Feather Boas, Black Hoodies, and John Deere Hats. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-215-2_21

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