Domestic classes on introduction to violence

If you search YouTube for "Tokat oyunu" (Slapping Game), you will see a long list of many video links. In some of them a father plays it with his son or daughter, in others two brothers play. Sometimes a group of children play among themselves. They take turns slapping each other.

In one of them, first a father slaps his son, then the son slaps the father, then the father again. The slaps get harder gradually. They are having fun slapping each other. The mother or the sister videotaping the incident is also having fun, laughing behind the camera.  

In another video, the younger brother does not want to play with the older. It is understood that the elder brother not only wants to play but also wants to make the younger play to make him "a man." The young one laughs but at the same time he is afraid, telling his brother, "You are slapping me very hard." After each slap, he massages his cheek. His brother advises him, "If you close your eyes, then it would not hurt that much." At one point, he is so angry with his brother's slap that he has a much harder response. The older brother is happy with the "education." He encourages, "Well done, yes this is how you do it." As the child whines "It hurts," the big brother repeats, "You are a man, bro." At one point when the younger starts crying, he tells him, "No crying. Whose brother are you?"

This video has been viewed 105,000 times. Others have been viewed 300,000 times; there are even ones that have been viewed 1.5 million times. The cyber world is full of hundreds of slapping game videos watched by millions. 

Children between the ages of 3 and 5, 8 and 10, 12 and 15 slap their peers or adults. These videos are posted with "guaranteed laughter;" the viewers must be enjoying and laughing...

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