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ROMANIA AND BULGARIA, THE MOST EXPOSED COUNTRIES TO BULLYING AND PUBLIC SHAMING AS MANIPULATION TECHNIQUES FOR COMPLIANCE
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In the contemporary society there are many discussions about bullying and public shaming, especially about the need to eliminate this harmful phenomenon, but it can be seen that there is bullying and public shaming that affect countries and populations, without synchronizing the approach for the elimination of these phenomena. Romania and Bulgaria are the most exposed countries to what could be defined as bullying and public shaming at the country and population level, especially by presenting them as negative examples, following the annual statistics compiled by Eurostat. One of the reasons why Romania and Bulgaria are again in the last places in the EU is the consumption of daily portions of fruits and vegetables. Eurostat statistics place the two countries in last place in the EU in the consumption of fruit and vegetables, in the interpretation given by the media that took the Eurostat data, but it is, in fact, the consumption behavior that shows the population's refusal to comply to standardization. The two countries are large producers of fruits and vegetables, with a large number of owners of gardens and orchards, and culinary behaviors are based on the consumption of fruits and vegetables, especially from their own production. We have carried out an analysis of documents, at European level, correlated with the campaigns launched in the media, starting with 2014, to demonstrate the links between the need to impose new rules at EU level and the persuasion techniques used to determine the population to comply. We also conducted quantitative research to highlight the perception of public opinion on these topics. Thus, we demonstrated that the fact that Romanians and Bulgarians are on the last two places in these annual statistics shows, in fact, the total failure of standardization, at the level of society, as well as the impossibility to change mentalities in the two traditionalist countries. The role of bullying and public shaming is, in fact, to make the population comply, but even so no other results have been obtained.
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