AGE DISCRIMINITION

Age Discrimination

Age Discrimination

Introduction

Age discrimination is one of the worst types of discriminations next to that of racial or ethnic discrimination. A person's age should never be a factor in how they are treated. Once we reach the age where we can make logical conscious decisions on our own, we should be treated like any other adult. Age discrimination is predominant because the majority of this world's inhabitants have unfair and old-fashion ideas or beliefs with respect to two age groups in particular. These two groups that are discriminated against the most are the young and old.

Discussion

Once a person reaches the age of eighteen in America they are given the privilege of voting. Unfortunately, at the same time they are robbed of certain rights. I have always disagreed with the law in which adults under the age of 21 cannot purchase or consume alcohol legally. This law seems completely contradictory to me. I don't understand how our government can give us the right to choose our leaders or be sent off to war and given a machine gun and told to kill the enemy but deny us the right to legally buy alcoholic beverages. This just does not make sense. This is only one example of how the youth of America are discriminated against based on their age. Another predominant example is with respect to wages. People under the age of 21 usually get paid less than older people for doing the same job. This is a major problem in today's workplace. In order to correct this problem we need to focus our attention on paying people's wages based on their skill and performance of their duties. If a 16 and a 43-year old both have the same skills doing the same job they should be paid the same. Some people argue that older people should be paid more than youths because they have more financial duties and responsibilities than younger people. In order to make a high amount of money you need to posses certain skills and attributes that not many other people have. This is the reason why such fields as lawyers, doctors, and executives make the amount of money that they do. These people are rewarded on the amount of education that was needed to obtain their skills.

Everybody has the opportunity to do whatever he/she wants in life no matter what their personal and family circumstances are. Everything in this world is possible as long as you accept the challenge of obtaining it and work hard at achieving it. Many people will hide behind the excuse that they never had any opportunities growing up. This is an utter lie, for what could possibly prevent you from creating your own opportunities? The answer to this is nothing.

There are, however, some instances where a person's age must be a factor in their employment. One of these acceptable times would pertain to actor that must meet an age requirement for the authenticity of a dramatic ...