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		carlob on July 3, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Max Planck Society conducts bullying survey I also tend to associate the term bullying with kids, and use mobbing for workplace bullying. Apparently wikipedia uses the two terms almost interchangeably.

permatech on July 3, 2019 [–]

Are you in the US or Europe? I’ve heard the term mobbing used in Germany but never the US. In the US bullying would apply to both adults and children.

carlob on July 3, 2019 | | [–]

Italy. We specifically use the English word mobbing but we have a translation for bullying (bullismo).

gdfasfklshg4 on July 3, 2019 | | [–]

I have never heard the word "mobbing" in the UK.

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