Age Racism
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Younger people have less life experiences, therefore their points of view are based on their limited amount of experience and knowledge. It doesn't make their opinions invalid, they just carry less weight than a more seasoned individual's opinions. I would take the opinion of any 50-year-old way before I took the opinion of any 20-year-old.
My fiancee's cousin just got done taking an intro to psych course her freshman year in college and by golly is she excited to tell everyone what their psychological situation is. Forgive me if this is "petty" and "condescending," but I would heed more the opinion of any 50-year-old who is going to a psychologist before I took her (or any of her classmate's for that matter) opinion about psychology.
My fiancee's cousin just got done taking an intro to psych course her freshman year in college and by golly is she excited to tell everyone what their psychological situation is. Forgive me if this is "petty" and "condescending," but I would heed more the opinion of any 50-year-old who is going to a psychologist before I took her (or any of her classmate's for that matter) opinion about psychology.
Hence my use of the phrase "a valid point". Plenty of 50 year olds spout unresearched and uneducated nonsense, plenty of 20 year olds actually know what they're talking about. You should look at the value of the point being made, not who is making it. In your case, the 50 year old has the better point for having more experience with the topic at hand, not for being 30 years older.
It is that simple. Just sitting there growing older does not confer knowledge by itself. I'd rather ask my 24-year-old archaeology MSc buddy about archaeology than my dad, who's twice his age, because one of them, despite being much younger, has actual concrete knowledge of the subject. You, on the other hand, seem to saying the opposite, that despite multiple qualifications and years of academic and practical experience, the younger guy just doesn't know as much because of his age.
RichardNailder
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No different than when some young person (+/- 38) does it...... 
Actually - I practice age discrimination all the time - starting with YOU MUST BE AT LEAST 18 for me to fuck you.
And no - I find the many of the views and opinions of younger people inspiring
Actually - I practice age discrimination all the time - starting with YOU MUST BE AT LEAST 18 for me to fuck you.
And no - I find the many of the views and opinions of younger people inspiring
ApolloBalboa
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By the same token, as also mentioned by Jeep!, there are plenty of times I've had older people talk down to me. I'm fortunate enough that my current job keeps me gainfully employed with money in my pocket, food in my fridge, and a bit of a safety cushion. However, because I didn't finish college, I have many people tell me that (in essence) my life will go nowhere, I'll never be able to support myself or my family without a degree. I never say anything to respond to that, but I'm always tempted to ask if THEY had to go to school nowadays for that degree in literature one's got or the history studies A.A. another one has and wind up in a hole in the ground after finishing school, or put if off, earn some money, and have the opportunity to go back at your own convenience, would they still do the former?
Not always. Not all experiences are equal. I know some people younger than myself who have more fundamental life experience, and many people much older who have fundamentally less.
This. Also "agism" is a valid spelling as well. Different age groups are not races (though technically there's no such thing as "race" anyway, it's a folk taxonomy).
Young people are so absolute.
They see everything in black and white, they do not recognize the gray zone.
ApolloBalboa
Was King of the Board for a Day
And what you're saying here isn't absolute? (sarcasm)
Is there any examples?
I'd list you some, but why not just google the phrase "child prodigy" and learn something new for a change.
It is what you think it is.
LucyOHara
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In general older people are more "absolute" as they become set in their ways and more intolerant of change. What they've always said and done is right because that's what they've said and done and it's worked, thus everything else is wrong. As a general rule it's almost always the older generations who impede progress on the simple stubborn principle of change being bad, while the younger generations are more prone to embrace it. That's absolutism at it's finest.
Jagger69
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I relish listening to the ideas, observations and concerns of young people. Just like I have a perspective that they cannot share as a benefit of my life experience (damn....I am an old fuck! :1orglaugh ), they can teach me alternative ways of examining things based on their unobscured and fresh perspectives that might help to open my eyes to things that are changing and of which I may not be aware and, therefore, do not understand.
It's a big reason I continue to hang out on this forum. I am likely one of the oldest members here and doing so helps to keep my views open so that I don't evolve into some frightened, reactionary and angry old man just because I am in fear of and do not understand the changes that are going on around me. I don't ever want to be THAT guy.
It's a big reason I continue to hang out on this forum. I am likely one of the oldest members here and doing so helps to keep my views open so that I don't evolve into some frightened, reactionary and angry old man just because I am in fear of and do not understand the changes that are going on around me. I don't ever want to be THAT guy.
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