The largest proprietor of age discrimination is the federal government of the US . This manifests itself in laws passed. The government looks at age as a trait which renders a person capable of completing or handling a certain situation. We aren't allowed to drive until we're are at least 16 years of age. Anyone, with very few exceptions, over this age is allowed to drive. Now come on, how many of you have been driving or riding along in a car when all of the sudden an old lady pulls out in front of you completely oblivious to what they're doing? How is this person any more qualified to drive than most 15 year olds you know? At least the younger people can see. Another example: In order to purchase cigarettes, we must be

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use this definition to prohibit people from hearing these words. Simply because it offends some people, those under 18 cannot even hear the word? Take the definition I just gave of a cuss word....any funny word can be considered a cuss word and therefore unfit for the general public to hear? This is unfair to those individuals who are under a certain age limit but are mature enough to handle greater responsibility.

We must prove that age is simply a number, not a determiner. How many of you have met someone at a party or the mall or wherever, thinking that they're your age. You talk to them for a long time only to realize afterwards that they're much older than you? Or younger?

The generation gap is not necessarily a bad thing. It simply shows us that time changes both people and ideas. The difference formed makes people, and generations, individual. It is when these gaps are taken advantage of and made wider by discrimination that problems arise. We, as a society, need to break this trend towards discrimination and close this gap. We need to stop looking at people as old, young, black, or white. Decisions mustn't be made by their physical traits or their heritage, but because of their personality traits and what makes that person unique. You have just been shown that most of us, from individuals to establishments, discriminate at least in some form based on age. Therefore, we must all put forth effort in order to erase this atrocity and move forward to a better tomorrow.

Society expresses itself in media: in the forms of print, movies, and music. The framework in society of all of these areas contains age discrimination. People under the age of 18 cannot buy or look a

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