Academic
Some academic circles such as dorms, fraternities, teams and other clubs practice
- Hazing
- Ragging
- Fagging
- Szecskáztatás, a mild form of hazing (usually without physical and sexual abuse) practiced in some Hungarian secondary schools. First-year junior students (szecskák ) are publicly humiliated through embarrassing clothing and senior students branding their faces (with marker pens); it is sometimes also a contest, with the winners usually earning the right to organize the next event.
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