Vtech killer was picked on and bullied for his Korean accent while growing up -?

Question

Massacre aside (not even gonna try to justify that one) - Does anyone think this contributed heavily to why he never ever liked to speak? And also decided to be an english major?

From the Yahoo article :

"As soon as he started reading, the whole class started laughing and pointing and saying, `Go back to China,'" Davids said.

ice : I'm not discussing the relation of his past to the killings - I'm asking about how it affected him growing up.

silk : Do you really think people are going to admit to bullying him - especially now after all this is happened?

silk - So you're saying I should only believe the articles YOU've read about people trying to reach out to him? Those were on Yahoo too genius. When did you become the authority on truth?

Answer 1

i think we need to be very firm about teaching our kids to not laugh at other kids, teach them not to be racist by not being racists ourselves. i read in a book that children learn to be racist at a very early age from their parents.i'm not saying that getting laughed at or picked on will make become killers but it might. let's teach our kids the good manners, teach them what is the real beauty which is the beauty and purity of the soul and heart. i have a lot to say about this but i'd rather make it short.
ps: i was picked on since my childhood to college, now i have a very strong personality and feel very secure, this makes people respect me, but i thank my husband who gave me all the love in the world to be what i am right now.

Answer 2

Well, they are also reporting that he may have had acute paranoia or even been schizophrenic...in which case, picking on him may have contributed to his paranoia. But I wonder how relevant that is given that the bullying episodes mentioned may have occured as far back as middle school.........i mean he was college senior........there must have been more in btw that happened to him or his deteriorating condition remained unchecked for so long that come the monday morning of april 16th, he was just to far gone.

Answer 3

Well, Kids can be cruel and some kids can't handle the pressure of being picked on. I was picked on in Middle School a lot and it caused me to have low self-esteem, I even thought of committing suicide at the age of 13. Thank God, when I entered HIgh School , it was a whole different story, everything changed for me and I did too. It all depends on how people are able to handle pressure and how they can change. It caused him serious mental issues.

Answer 4

Millions of kids every year are picked on. The difference between most of them and the ones that go off is a state of mental wellbeing.

Answer 5

I read an account from relatives in Korea that he had a speech problem when he lived there. Maybe that accounts for his speech issues and then toss in learning a new language, that would lead to some major speech issues. But we will never know.

Answer 6

Of course, not being allowed to speak, being interrupted every time you speak, feeling like you don't have anyone who cares about how you feel/what you have to say -- all that is going to erode your self-confidence. This kid probably grew up repressed. Maybe he became an English major because writing was an outlet for him to express himself instead of speaking out.

Answer 7

Most people who get picked on don't turn into mass murderers, but it seems to be a key ingredient.

Colleges and high schools have for the past few years implemented a policy where the instructor leaves it up to the students themselves to form group projects.

This policy, which differs in the past where teachers assigned people to groups, marginalizes and humiliates those students who already are socially challanged for whatever reason.

Currently group project assignments are highly stressed at universities because of corporate pressure for people with group work experience.

The university is keeping quiet about the complaints that Cho made, my guess is that being cut out of group projects was a central issue with him.

At Purdue a few years ago a foreign graduate student from India stated he wanted to nuke the campus. In the local newspaper the other students were quoted as saying, 'no one wanted to have anything to do with him'. He was deported without being given a chance to give his reasons, and the university did not make public his previous complaints to the university administration.

Well, this sticks out as an indication that he was being left out of being included in group projects, which pretty much toasts the students academic goals.

Imagine for yourself being successful in your major, traveling thousands of miles to further your career, and hitting a social brick wall that excludes you , humilates you and runs your dream. For a young person without maturity that is a dangerous situation.

Given that he was successful in India prior to coming over, it indicates to me this 'let the students form their own groups' is a policy that hurts student socialization in a very harmful way.

Answer 8

No I don't think so. He was paranoid and psychotic; nothing anybody did caused that. Some paranoiacs are very skillful at hiding their true condition. Even so, a number of people were afraid of him, due to the signals of violence that he gave.
The only thing that would have helped him would have been to force him to get treatment.

Answer 9

Who knows what he was thinking? If he was bullied, shame on those who did. It goes much deeper than that, I'm sure but now we'll never know. What we do know, is that he took 32 innocent lives just like that. Was he sane or insane when he chained the doors shut on the inside before he began his shooting rampage? Does it really even matter now?

Answer 10

I don't have a degree in sociology or in psychyatry. EVERYONE gets picked on. EVERYONE...there hasn't been one person alive who hasn't been picked on one time or another. It's how you deal with your feelings. MILLIONS even BILLIONS of people have managed to not go on killing sprees during their schooling years. But I digress, we should have mediation classes as a structured benefit in all schools...provided just as importantly as math, geography, reading, writing, gym, art.