[Echo-chan713]

Name: (Tris name) Echo-chan (real name) Kaitlin
Age: 20
Gender: Female
Occupation: Pawnbeoker
Ethnic Background: White


1) Have you or has someone you know ever experience a situation where you’ve felt people were treating you in unjust ways due to obvious generalizations made to your age? When did this happen? How did it happen? Explain.

-None of them major like the fact that I'm 20 and everyone expects me to be a wild child and party girl. But most of the time it's that people think I'm older than I am actually because of the way I look

2) (If yes) In response to that, how did it effect you personally? How did it effect your family? As a result, did you lose or leave your job? (Was there only a financial struggle that you had to overcome?) Did you feel that there was any long-term effects that followed socially or even psychologically?

-Well it hasn't affected anything other than my sweatshop job because I'm always questioning their procedures even though mine is faster. I'm going through a long rebellious stage since I was 16.
3) (If yes) How did you cope with it?

4) Do you believe that the positive aspects of age apply for seniors in the work place are enough to outweigh their more negatively perceived generalizations? Explain.

-As far as I know since the economy went downward it's very hard for me to believe that seniors in the workplace would work. Because today, everyone wants the young ones to work for them really hard for a long time, and then just give them to me below minimum wage paycheck.

5) Do you believe that certain dangers are prone to derive from ageist stereotypes? What kind of dangers do you think those would be? Would they be psychological, or would they seem more socially inclined? (For Example: less pay, dismissal, abuse, disrespect, etc.)

-I wouldn't feel like there's certain danger to it other than assumptions to the victims such as an old lady means she has lots of gold jewelry, so lets go and invade her place and get the gold.

6) Scenario: If you were an employer looking to hire a mature, sophisticated worker to fill a managing position at a retail store, would you consider passing by a seemingly reliable, loyal, experienced senior applicant with a better work ethic to a younger, more long-lasting individual? Would you do this to maintain lateral advancements in the workplace? Would you risk a senior employee being short-lived to younger employees? Explain.

-Well I want someone who knows how to do things around that certain type of business so I rather hire the older individual.

7) How difficult do you believe it is to claim ageism as a reason for dismissing one from their job?Is it something you once feared at your workplace?

8) Vincent J. Roscigno, a Professor of Sociology at Ohio State University, believes that "age discrimination is an equal opportunity form of inequality". Do you also believe that to be so? Do you think Ageism is something far more prevalent than other forms of discrimination? Explain.

-I've seen sexism and racism more prevalent than ageism. it is a form of discrimination but it's not the one that I've seen everyday


9) “The point of putting a label on a human life, is reduce it from a story to a condition. Something predictable, something that wont ever change, something that isn't free to choose its own future." — Edward Mendelson Do you agree with this view? Why or why not?

-I can say it's true, it's like a mother saying to their chair that he/she is a bad child it sticks to them then they live out the rest of he/she life with that expectation of being a bad child so they act out like one.

10) Is Ageism ultimately a result of government precepts or does the real answer lie within human incapability to see beyond biological contemplation?

-Not really as far as I know because mine is more biological than government.

11) Should stereotypes, in involvement with prejudice, be discouraged at the risk of health impairment?

-I don't really know how to answer it.

12) Should children or young adults be advocated for when faced with prejudice of their age? Explain.

-If any discrimination has an advocate then this one can have one too