Hello, I'm Tamerson Ford. Welcome to Business Daily from the BBC.

Ever been told you're not old enough for the job?

During the feedback conversation after my internship, I was actually told that I was too young.

Or what about when you actually have the job? has your age been held against you?

I was made fun of being called a crybaby despite the fact that I'm 19 years old.

It's 2021. Why is this still so widely accepted?

It's that last kind of discrimination that's out there that people feel they can say anything.

In today's Business Daily, we take a look at so-called youngism

and how and why younger generations now may face more age discrimination

than younger generations of the past.

So pretty much they just said that it was my age, that they completely used age as a reason for why I wasn't fit to be a diplomat.

That's Priscilla Bonsu. When she was 22, she completed an internship at an embassy in Washington, D.C.

When she had finished, she was told she was too young to go any further.

I didn't expect my age to be the issue.

When I was told that I was too young, I just felt like it was inaccurate.

I actually felt like my age helped me in a lot of situations. For example,

like the college campus projects that we were working on, I think because of my age, I actually

knew things or saw things that people that I was working for didn't see. I knew what young people

in my age were listening to, what kind of music and pop

culture and all these things. And I thought that would be interesting for the students on campus

and for them to, I just found a way to kind of connect both groups. And instead, my ideas were

completely dismissed. And then during the feedback conversation, I was just told

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