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Old 09-11-2007, 09:06 AM
jessiwannabe jessiwannabe is offline
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Hazing is an often ritualistic test and a task, which may constitute harassment, abuse or humiliation with requirements to perform random, often meaningless tasks, sometimes as a way of initiation into a social group. The definition can refer to either physical (sometimes violent) or mental (possibly degrading) practices. The word is most frequently encountered in the United States and Canada; in the United Kingdom and some other Commonwealth countries, ragging or fagging or fooling is usually used instead. In continental European languages, terms with a 'christening' theme or etymology are often preferred (e.g. baptême in French, doop in Dutch in Flanders) or variations on a theme of naïveté and the rite of passage such as a derivation from a term for freshman (e.g. bizutage in French, ontgroening 'de-green[horn]ing' in Dutch) or a combination of both, such as in the Finnish mopokaste (literally "motorbicycle baptism", "motorbicycle" being the nickname for freshmen, stemming from the concept that they would be barred from riding a full motorcycle by their age).

This is the dictionary definition of hazing.This type of hazing is wrong I agree all in favor.
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Old 09-11-2007, 11:51 AM
Knoxstudent Knoxstudent is offline
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ragging or fagging or fooling is usually used instead.
Well, I don't know about these terms. However, I do know what people say about your city. "There ain't no ham like Birmingham."
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