'age is just a number.' write a speech to convey your opinion in a opinion manner
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It’s interesting that when we are thinking about ourselves, age becomes just a number and feels somewhat meaningless. However, the positive way we tend to see our own age, doesn’t always translate to how we perceive, or even judge the age of others. We’re all guilty of it. I’m sure at some point, you’ve unwittingly, and with the best of intentions, said gushingly to an older relative or friend, “you look great for your age” or, at work, perhaps have automatically assumed your ‘older colleague’ won’t know how to use the latest technology – all because their chronological age is numerically higher than your own. Somehow, they are ‘old’, while you assume you are ‘young’. How come?
The world around us, with its prevailing cultural beliefs and social norms, reinforces this harmful thinking every day – even down to the language we’re continuously exposed to. For instance, in the UK, at the young age of 60, you can apply for an ‘older persons’ bus pass – that’s actually what it’s called, and I am eligible for one soon, even though I do not regard myself as an ‘older person’! While enjoying your morning coffee, leafing through your newspaper (or scrolling online), you’ll probably be confronted with an array of attention-grabbing headlines including the words ‘pensioner’, ‘elderly’ or ‘senior’ when referring to older people. It feels as if we are subliminally taught that ageing is somehow negative, something to be endured, something that makes us less capable – both in our personal and our working lives.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO) as soon as 2050, the world’s population aged 60 years and older is expected to double to two billion. Given the world is getting older, it’s about time we start to tackle the underlying ageism that is so prevalent in our society and, thus, in many of our workplaces. After all, whether we like it or not, we are all growing older as each day passes – there’s no getting away from that. So, if we don’t start to make a change now, in 30 years’ time, our children and grandchildren will have to endure the same ageist attitudes that we are facing today.
So, can we do it? Well, think of all the commendable strides we’ve made towards challenging biases around gender, race and socioeconomic status over the last decades. While more needs to be done in these areas, it’s hard to deny that we’ve come a long way. It’s time we started seeing ageism as the issue that it is. After all, if we really want to make the world in which we live and work in as inclusive as it can be, we need to change the narrative and embrace the views, skills and perspectives of all the voices around us – regardless of whether they sound different, or how many years they’ve been around for.
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