2025-12-17
18 分钟Good morning everyone.
Thank you so much for attending.
I'm going to present some of the main insights of my current research.
titled, Bullies Played by Bullies, Lessons from Mexico.
So the main question that has guided my research is try to understand what motivates a student to become a bully.
Now there is this idea and common narrative that bullies are pretty much monsters with inherent evil nature.
And when we think about this, we think about, for example,
Nelson from The Simpsons, and we see other characters that they are just there for harping harm.
other people without really any specific cause just for the sake of doing harm.
Now, to give you some context about bullying in Mexico,
according to the last figures, we have a very severe problem.
According to the Enadis, we have all 3.3 million of adolescents victim of bullying.
We have almost 3 million as well of adolescents victims of cyberbullying.
And while the numbers according to the OCDE, Mexico will be in the average of the organization,
some estimation from NGOs states that Mexico might be the first worldwide in terms of bullying,
that pretty much contribute to 60% of child suicide in the country.
Now, the numbers are already green, but if we take a look to the cases, we see even a war situation.
We have the case of Norma Lisbet who was killed during a fight and her video went viral.
We had the case of the teacher Patricia who was stabbed during her class by one of her students.
Or we have the case of Juan who was burned alive just for the sake of speaking an indigenous language.