Thread: Is Ageeism the new Racism?

I live right along one of the major parks in my town. Without fail, any time I drive by or walk through it in the evening, there is a younger asian woman (25-35) walking with an elderly asian woman. Also without fail, I can invariably find elderly asian men holding court in a restaurant or store as well.

Culturally, we don't hold as much veneration as other cultures do. Why? Is it because society has focused our young on the wrong pursuits, so the knowledge and wisdom our elderly hold are not relevant until much later?

As for ageism in general, it cuts both ways. You give me access to one of those sweet senior's developments and 10% off at the buffets and I promise to call my grandma once a week.

Originally Posted by Nacian

Easily said than done. I think we are passed that time where we cared more for letters and word and less in gloss and paint.
People are less intuitive on feelings and thoughts but more inquisitive on the latest beauty pageon and the aesthetics of the human form.

It is impossible to know that people are less intuitive now than before or that we are more inquisitive now about superficial matters now than we were before, unless, you have the ability to be other people both past and present. Do you have that ability?

My opinion, from listening to and reading online posts of countless people over many years, I think humans naturally being social creatures like to have everyone on earth view the world through their lenses and think just like them.

I find 100 people from different cultural and environmental rearing and I'm likely to get 100 different answers as to what is right. Furthermore, many people frustrate themselves trying to change someone into what they want them to be.

While looks are valued I think ideas and beliefs are valued by most people too. It frustrates a person if most people they encounter have contradicting ideas, beliefs, and values from what they hold.

I literally enrage people online - this new secular and relativistic world where all religions are equal - when I state I refuse to ever marry a woman that is anti-Catholic. Furthermore, I have no desire to stop mob wives from being mob wives, basketball wives from being basketball wives, or to change anyone into my perception of what is right. Well... that's not entirely true. I do have a desire and want to change certain social if not political-economic views of certain peoples in certain regions of the world. So, I guess there is a bit of contradiction in me.

Non-physical aspects of humans can be overrated at times when we wax to poetically and sympathetically to them. Humans are biological creatures that sexually reproduce and therefore are influenced to some extent by the visual images of bodies as well as things like brute force, competition, and shallow dance of courting.

I think good physical looks are as wonderful as good poetry or good writing. Looks aren't everything but in my book they are one thing. An important thing. A super obese woman with one leg and no teeth could be the wisest person in the world. She could hold a B.A. in physics. I'm not going to want to marry or be romantically intimate with her.






I don't think any of the women on Mob Wives would be interested in me and I'm not interested in them. We hold different values of what's more important to us. I'm indifferent to our differences on some level. They are who they are and I am who I am.

On the other hand... from what I know of her (not much) I do like the personality of J-Lo (Jeniffer Lopez) along with her body and lovely face. I can look past her multiple marriages or relationships. Another man may not. Such is life.


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It's interesting to me how some see it as an us and them divide, splitting people into "young" and "old". I don't really like that many people my own age and I find a lot pretty braindead, if I am speaking sincerely.