Hazing

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thumb|Hazing of a French Army pilot in 1997 after he completed 1,000 flight hours Hazing (American English), initiation, beasting (British English), bastardisation (Australian English), ragging (South Asian English) or deposition refers to any activity that humiliates, degrades, abuses, or endangers a person, regardless of their willingness to participate, the enduring of which is expected of them when joining or participating in a group.

Dedovshchina (, ) is the informal practice of hazing and abuse of junior conscripts historically in the Soviet Armed Forces and today in the Russian Armed Forces, internal troops, and to a lesser extent FSB, Border Guards, as well as in other armed forces and special services of former Soviet Republics. It consists of brutalization by more senior conscripts, NCOs, and officers. It is a form of non-statutory dominant-status relations between military personnel; the most common form of non-statutory relations, which is a violation of the statutory rules of relations between conscripts, based on

Initiation rite for first crossing of the equator

initiation ritual at European universities from the Middle Ages until the 18th century

"Piggate" refers to a claim that, during his time at Oxford University, former British prime minister David Cameron inserted his penis or scrotum into a dead pig's mouth as part of an initiation ceremony for the Piers Gaveston Society.