Dear Katrine Nielsen:

I am sorry, Katrine, that this has been your life experience. None of the painful experiences you shared about was your fault, none was your doing. You were a victim of cruelty by grandmother, by the school bullies, the two teachers,  and that boss. And you were a victim of circumstances: your sister being sick, your father not being supportive enough, your mother being overly burdened with responsibilities.

It is amazing that in these circumstances you were top of your class, and later, you got the second highest grade, and that you did so well in London.

I don’t expect you to tell me the name of your native country, for the sake of anonymity, so I am not asking for the name. What I am trying to understand is all that bullying and cruelty that you experienced in your country- it is often when a country suffers from poor economy/ poverty, war and/ or civil unrest for many years, that so many people are aggressive to each other. Is this the case?

anita