Hey you! Be nice!

After reading 'Just Kidding And Ganging Up' from

Odd Girls Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls by Rachel Simmons reminded me a time when I was part of an alliance that made someone feel bad. So this is what happened, back in  Cleveland Elementary School,  where everyone did not think before they speak, when nobody took anything seriously, and when most of the time we joked around. So this is what happened in elementary, there was this one new girl that came to our school from Guangzhou, China. Her name was Wan Ying Li, she did not speak much English, but she understood most of  it because she learned some English in China. She had a dry, tanned skin and a round plump face with dark brown eyes.Wan Ying smelled like ornaments and herbs. She dressed differently from us, and had really deep Asian accents. My friends and I thought that she would not understand us, so we talked bad stuff about her in front of her face. We talked about how she dressed like an old lady. She wore homemade clothing and cargo pants from China. She wore knitted sweaters and wore socks with sandals. Also, how she had a hairdo that looks like a boy it was up to her ears, how her mom would always come to school to hand her, her smelly lunch, and how she was always a loner with no friends. Ying understood almost everything we said, when she spoke to us in her deep Asian accented  English, we were surprised and embarrassed. She said. "I know you talk bad me, you vevy mean." My friend replied in a nasty, "Its very mean not vevy, Hello?" After we promoted from elementary my friends and I thought back about what we said and we felt really sorry for talking trash about her, now we think back of what happened we regret for not apologizing to her. I guess we were young and did not have the guts to do it. After experiences in schools, elementary and middle school, I think people bully others, because they want to feel more superior and powerful. So that the others can not over power them. And plus, they want to hurt their peers; because they want to pick on people they dislike, or had conflicts with. Or probably, they got bullied before and wants others to feel he's or her's pain. Either way bullying is harmful and disrespectful to not only others but also yourself.