Ageism Ageism also spelled agism is stereotyping and

Ageism

• Ageism (also spelled "agism") is stereotyping and discriminating against individuals or groups on the basis of their age. • The term was coined in 1969 by Robert Neil Butler to describe discrimination against seniors,

• While the term is also used to name prejudice and discrimination against adolescents and children, including ignoring their ideas because they are too young, or assuming that they should behave in certain ways because of their age, [5] the term is predominantly used in relation to the treatment of older people.

What is discrimination?

Discrimination • the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex: • the practice of unfairly treating a person or group of people differently from other people or groups of people

What are stereoptypes?

Stereotypes • a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing • an often unfair and untrue belief that many people have about all people or things with a particular characteristic

The Wrinkle Queen • Has the Wrinkle Queen been discriminated against?

• Are there any stereotypes that Glen Huser has brought to your attention?

Ageism • Discrimination - The elderly

• What the elderly have to say from around the globe.

The Opera – Die Walküre • The story of Die Walküre is based on the Norse mythology told in the Volsunga Saga and the Poetic Edda. [1][2] In Norse mythology, a valkyrie is one in a group of female figures who decide which soldiers die in battle and which live. Die Walküre's best-known excerpt is the "Ride of the Valkyries".

• Famous Song from the Opera