Age Discrimination- Elissa Wilcox

There are many forms of discrimination in our culture. Whether it is because of disabilities, gender, sexual orientation, religion or age. Age is the one that is thought about least when thinking about discrimination, I think this is because people often fall into think that once a person is old they can not do anything anyway so there is no reason to discriminate against them because it is actually fact. This however, is not true because although people get old and perhaps more fragile, they are still able to do things. I know that when I get old I do not want people to think that I can’t do things by myself if I can. If a person who is elderly is being discriminated against they will not experience as rich of a life as those who are not being discriminated against. They will also not be as content in their lives because they have to fight for their rights everyday.