Ageism
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Ageism is a type of discrimination based on one's age, generally used to refer to age-based discrimination against elderly or younger people. The term was coined in 1969 by Robert Neil Butler to descr
Robert N. Butler, founding director of the National Institute on Aging who coined the term "ageism"
Barbara Robb, founder of the Aid for the Elderly in Government Institutions pressure group
A 14-year-old newsboy in New York City, 1910
National Youth Rights Association members protesting the voting age in Berkeley, California (2004)
Discrimination
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Discrimination is the process of making unjustified distinctions between people based on the groups, classes, or other categories to which they belong or are perceived to belong, usually in a way that
Ageism
…Ageism is a type of discrimination based on one's age, generally used to refer to age-based discrimination against elderly or younger people. The term was coined in 1969 by Robert Neil…
An African-American man drinking from a racially segregated water cooler marked "Colored", in Oklahoma City c. 1939
Nationalists in Corsica sometimes spray-paint or shoot traffic signs in French.
Anti-Arab sign in Pattaya Beach, Thailand
German warning in German-occupied Poland 1939 – "No entrance for Poles!"