The fact that American students are more likely to try to stop bullying when they discover bullying is well-known. One of the main reasons of this is the racial composition. There are a lot of people from different racial backgrounds in America. Consequently, American citizens do not have any shared character or ways of thinking. Shinichi Sugimori, a professor of Tokyo Gakugei University, says that social imperative has strong power in multi-racial countries (Sugimori). For this reason, American students tend to stop bullying because they have social imperative that they have to stop bullying. In contrast, Japanese students is more likely to pretend to be indifferent to the bullying to avoid being bullied. It does not mean that Japan do not have social imperative that they have to stop the bullying when they found it. Professor Sugimori says that mono-racial countries put more importance on the atmosphere of a small group they belong than social imperative (Sugimori). Japan is a typical example of mono-racial country. Therefore, American and Japanese schools have different reaction of students who found …show more content…
American students are more likely to counteract to the bullies when they are bullied. Priebe-Diaz, an expert of district intervention, showed a footage of a student who was bullied in front of other students. In this footage, he pointed out that “The young student said he wanted to bring a gun to school to shoot his abuser in the leg.” (Rivera). This is one example to show that American students sometimes react violently to the bullying. On the other hand, Japanese students tend to blame themselves than blame bullies and to look for a chance to revenge when they were bullied. According to a survey, to stop attending school, killing themselves, and being depressed are more likely to happen in societies that put importance on blaming themselves than blaming others (Sugimori). Japanese society has this kind of self-blaming character. For these reasons, the way victims react to the bullying is different between American and Japanese