Age Discrimination

Discrimination is found in every society. It might be due to race, class, caste, religion or any other type. I have recently come across a lesser known or observed discrimination - discrimination by age.

Have you ever noticed that when a small group of youngsters get together and start having fun, all the adults passing by stare and scowl at them? By having fun, I don't mean smoking or drinking or something like that. Maybe they are just talking, a tad high on the decibel level. Yet, everyone has to look at them and act like they are a nuisance.

But when adults do the same thing (or even worse), nobody bothers. This is what I call age discrimination.

Recently, there was a marriage ceremony near my house. Those arses were playing loud music till almost 2 in the night. It must have started at about 8. Also, most of the people were drunk and were acting in a very vulgar and cheap way.

Yet, no police stopped this real nuisance and nobody scowled at them, damning them to hell.

But if 5 guys have a party with some loud music (which is probably 1/10th of the sound that is played in these marriages), the whole society makes a huge uproar. They call in the police, use terms like "Youth have been spoilt" or "Youth will destroy the future of this country".

This is so unfair. Why does anything young people do seen as being bad?

I am not complaining. I stick out like a sore thumb in both parties. I am neither good at dancing in a pub or on the roadside to "teenmaar". I just want to point out this unfairness.