What is the on crucial difference between older people and other subordinate groups, such as racial and ethnic minorities or women?
A. older people do not experience unequal treatment in employment
B. older people have a strong sense of group solidarity and other groups do not
C. all of us who live long enough will eventually assume the ascribed status of being an older person
D. older people are generally married to others of comparable age and other minorities do not marry withing their group
Ans: C. all of us who live long enough will eventually assume the ascribed status of being an older person
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