I'm tired of hearing about 'discrimination.' I'm very sorry for people whose chances are legitimately affected by people who are judgemental about irrelevant things. However, sometimes I wonder about some of what we call 'discrimination.' If someone hires someone over someone else just because the winning applicant is more attractive, is this discrimination? It's unfair, perhaps, but when hiring someone, we're selecing someone we're going to be working around for quite some time (at least in theory). Doesn't it make sense to hire someone with whom you'd prefer to spend time?

I've also wondered about exactly who it is that's being discriminated against. Practically everyone has a 'politically correct' title because it seems some things are discriminatory. However, I find it odd to call someone 'African-American' or 'Asian-American' when that person could well have been born in the United States (using the USA as an example) and be just as "American" as everyone else. Are white people called "Caucasian-Americans?" Nope. Doesn't inserting the name of a place the individual may never have been to label them as "different" when we're really trying to make it appear that everyone is equal? Wouldn't it be more politically correct, not to mention welcoming, to refer to everyone simply as humans and forget about having to fit into little bubbles on a paper?

Speaking of discrimination, aren't young people discriminated against more than anyone else? Think about it. Young people:


Not to mention a whole variety of social and cultural stigma. Young people aren't taken seriously. They're talked down to and patronized. Teenagers are stereotyped as loafers and hooligans. Curfew laws control the movement of young people.

The thing that really gets to me is the right to vote. Don't sixteen year olds have a right to decide in the selection of people who will influence their lives? Doesn't an educated sixteen year old know as much about politics as an ignorant or apathetic 'adult'? I've heard people as young as thirteen hold perfectly respectable conversations about 'mature' topics that adults couldn't even handle. And you have to remember that with current suicide laws, we don't have a choice in the matter of whether we accept our situation or not.

Take to the streets, my angry teenage friends! To the barracades! We will cast off our chains and liberate ourselves from the oppressors! Hoorah! ... what? My TV show is on? Hang on, guys, be back in an hour....