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...American culture is aging us, more of us, and more disastrously than it ever has before,” Gullette said. Significant changes have taken place over the last 30 years, accelerating during the boom of the 1990s. They include the widespread apprehension of aging past youth, job discrimination against the middle aged and elderly and equalized longevity. With regard to this last issue, Gullette pointed out that certain ethnic groups and class groups, particularly African American men and Native Americans, are more vulnerable to the effects of aging on employment...
...affected by ageism and whose problem it is, so that the discussion surrounding the issue reflects what is actually going on in today’s culture. “The American dream is becoming truncated,” Gullette said. “Aging past youth is becoming a decline...
Gullette pointed out the contradictions in American age culture. “We boast about longevity and health while the commerce of aging is backing down the life course, striking younger and younger people with the fear of aging past youth,” she said...
...time when older workers are having trouble finding jobs. For persons born after 1959, the minimum age for full social security benefits has been raised from 65 to 67. “Raising the age of retirement when the economy is losing millions of jobs, and the youth cult is growing, and midlife discrimination is growing, is a refinement of cruelty,” said Gullette...
...Mathilde’s characterization and taking a memento from the set of each of his films. For example, Mathilde’s superstitious nature is not part of her original characterization, but is instead, a detail added by Jeunet, who confesses to having been a very superstitious youth himself...