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5 pages in length. To spend one's life amassing experience, education, information and a better understanding of the surrounding global environment means one has earned the title of being called elderly. However, despite all of the inherent value one may have collected through years of living and breathing on this earth, it does not automatically equate to the measure of respect and deference one might expect it to command; rather, the level of contempt held for old age continues to grow in global communities like America and Africa. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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one may have collected through years of living and breathing on this earth, it does not equate to the measure of respect and deference one might expect it to command;
rather, the level of contempt held for old age continues to grow in global communities like America and Africa. Getting old in America
is not a socially accepted occurrence. Contempt and disrespect stem from the aspect of aging against ones will, with people looking upon the elderly as slow, incapable, broken down
and virtually worthless individuals. The notion of ageism, the negative attitude associated with getting old, is apparent in myriad ways, with its roots likely planted in Greek philosophy where
old age was akin to weakness. Contemporary American society has successfully carried on this tradition of impertinence in many ways, not the least of which by forcibly pushing the
elderly out of the workforce in a blatant display of irreverence. Indeed, the inherent social power of Americas media serves to influence public
opinion; therefore, it is no surprise to find that people learn how to disrespect the elderly by way of media interpretation. The bias that exists in the media -
particular in television but also clearly apparent in music, advertisements and all other entities - is not created by the media but actually perpetuated stemming from a basis of social
reality. While it is important to understand how the media did not instigate such an existence, it is primary in continuing the bias. Indeed, the media and elderly
representation has been a long-term problem; disrespect and ageism have had a healthy existence in society for a very long time. The hardship that the medias bias has caused
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