You can't actually cheat nature,  I understand the fact that you don't like it being old before you are still active. They must have their reason a tangible one for never afraid of you like when you were in 23 like you mentioned in the piece. 
>We see people walk down the street and make a call on what they wear, how they walk, their hair or who they are with and they walk past and, we think we are correct in our assessments without ever knowing the truth

People actually judge and make assumptions base on physical appearance of a person without getting to know the person in question deep down,... 
Your activeness and others activities you were engaged in could not be compare to what you were doing back then, I mean half of a years now.

This really was an "interesting" post. I just read Asher's post about the trending page and his "Interesting tabs".  We as people do have that tendency to pre-judge based on stereotypical views we have been taught throughout life. Getting older, I used to think sucked, but as I get past that getting "older phase", it actually is not that bad at all. Why is it not that bad? Well stereotypically people see old age as a second childhood. When you are old, like when you are young, you can get away with a lot of things.

You are only as old as you feel. I forget how old I am sometimes but the grey stubble gives it away. I often shave it off as I am not that old yet. have you found the sense of humor different with the Finnish people? Just a thing I picked up the other day. Maybe it is the language and not being their mother tongue it gets lost in translation. I have learnt not to pull their legs as such because either they don't understand or don't know me well enough yet. I am not judging them in any way but it was something I picked up. Maybe they are more serious than other nations. I don't know. You would be the best person to ask as you would've noticed with your sarcastic humor.

Hahahahaha,  I had no idea of where you are heading when you started out, how can a man who's almost 63 says he's not old? Smile 

But, now I understand better, the feelings, the sense and everything are still as young as ever in your head.  The hair may turn gray, the face might be covered with wrinkles, yet you are still you... Smile 

Well, it happens that we tend to judge people so soon, we don't care why they behave the way they behave before we term them either good or evil....

I don't know the problem people have with tribes, once you tell them you are from a particular tribe, they hate you instantly without trying to know about your personality.

A friend of mine from India is having that issue too, nobody want to be identified with him not because he's bad but because of one stupid idea they had about Indian generally.

"Australians are blonde surfer types" - It's funny how some things becomes stereotypical of a place even though it might not be an accurate reflection. Usually Hollywood goes outdoorsy 'Steve Irwin' stereotype for Australians and surfers for Californians :D

I also think when you say that you put them in an uncomfortable position at the beginning of the glass, you mean to bring them out of their comfort zone. If my assumption is correct then I know from experience that it is a very effective strategy for getting all the neurons fired up in a students brain before the actual lesson begins.

The body ages, but the mind doesn't ;)

Stereotypes and generalizations can be accurate, but not always. General behavioral and visual characteristics are formulated about people in a  region because there is a general applicability for those traits. Not that it's 100%. Not everything fits into generalizations, so although it might be easier and quicker to generalize and sometimes it's accurate, we always have to be mindful that it can be wrong because it can be a "hasty generalization" as the fallacy is called ;)

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One said, that explains it, normally Australians are blonde surfer types.... How many Australians had they met? This is a judgement that I have come across many times before but, find it interesting. Even after they know I am Australian, the stereotypes they have learned from the media overpower their reality.
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Another such stereotype is that it is always terribly cold in Finland. A heatwave must make a holder of that stereotype really uncomfortable while in Finland before the heat will give that person a pause.

It is interesting because I have known many people who are judges of which they judge in a terrifying way and despise people and I think that this is wrong since one must judge oneself before judging others, it is important to see and analyze oneself because many Sometimes we do not see our shortcomings and they are worse than the people we usually criticize, one is not old for having so many years or for having gray hair, if youth lives in you and you feel good because I have seen many young people who are old and do not know what is lost, great post everything is the reality

I work for Aussies for over 6 years now and have always marveled at the diversity of ethnic background. 

One of my boss is as you say the surfer type, big, muscular, blonde hair and blue eyes, 

Another one is of Greek descent and the other of Malta. 

MOst other nationalities when they hear Aussie they thing of Chris Hemsworth or Hugh Jackman. 

I have always loved the humor of Aussies and they always exuded a youth vibrant energy even if they are near their 50s. 

One of them still plays volleyball and just slams the competition. 

It is how young your brain says. 

I am a bout 30 but often mistaken for 25. Although I credit that to my Asian heritage and Rick and Morty cartoons hahaha.

One of the things that I value most in my career (Psychology) is that I learned not to have prejudices and not to judge people.

I did not usually do that, but I understood the importance of never judging people, and above all things stop being a constant critic of myself

Nobody likes to be judged, and for this reason I like to challenge myself to assume that whatever I think about anybody is wrong, and instead get to know the person who is right in front of me. My past has a little to do with that. 

I have dreadlocks, and because of this a number of people have thought that I was Jamaican, which is wrong. I cannot tell you how many times people have either tried to sell me weed, or offered me a joint, but I do not touch the stuff. 

I have dreadlocks because of what they represent. When my dad was in college, the government of Botswana (my home country) had given him a full scholarship to study abroad. During this time, the decided to grow dreadlocks because he liked the look. The government did not like the look and threatened to cancel his scholarship if he did not cut his hair. He didn't comply, and they made his life difficult. He fought it until he won. My dad has had his dreadlocks for over thrity-five years now. 

For me, my dreadlocks are a reminder to fight for what is right, and to never allow anybody to dictate what I must do with myself and my life. People don't see that. They see a Rastafarian, or a Jamaican, or someone who likes to smoke weed. They judge before they understand, and so I learnt to understand without judging, because everybody has something they can teach you, and my sticking a label on them, you risk missing the lesson you could learn.

Well I should firstly say , good health is better than riches . Not feeling old is a sign of good living. This is some deep thinking , I wasn’t in the class but you just presented the class to me through this post and I’ve acquired quite some useful knowledge. 
>Have they ever made a judgement on someone and later found out they were wrong? Of course, they have and we spoke a little bit about how most of our judgments in life go without confirmation to their correctness which means, we feel we are better judges than we have evidence of as when we judge in the moment, we think we judge well.

I direct this question to myself, and the answer is yeah it happens but not often cause I try to pay detailed attention to occurrences and make a finite investigation before passing my judgment but I still think I make fair judgment but humans can’t be accurate in judgment. I really learnt a lot from this

This reminds me of a physics professor in university.  He was Indian, and when I saw him on the first day of the course, I thought I would have difficult time with already difficult course material, due to the incomprehendable accent.  To my shock, the professor introduced himself with perfect Oxford accent, and even wrote pronunciation of his name next to his written name on the chalk board.  He was as British as Her Majesty the Queen.

Yeah, it’s interesting One of the first things I learned after I left Norway at 19 y.o. Where I would judge someone by their dressing, put them in a box A bit of a snob really. After I started living around the world I got surprised again and again, we actually have no idea what lives inside of people. So without judging the Finns, I find it funny that my Estonian roommate who has lived there for many years, says the Finns are not so worldly, and rather stuck in their old ideas. But then, who is not?!

I know this is a bit cliche, but you're only as old as you feel. This reminds me of an incident I had at my younger brother's school (he is 17 years younger than me). They had a track and field competition and I had gone to give him support. I was getting something from the car in the school car park when I hear two kids talking. I do not remember what they were talking about, but I remember hearing one of them say "lets go ask that old guy". When I looked up at them, they were looking straight at me. I looked around the entire car park, and only after I failed to see another soul, I realized that I was the "old guy". I helped them out, but I will never forget the day a couple of ten year olds called a then 27 year old me an old guy. 

Age is relative. I am sure there is someone somewhere in the world who would look at you and see a child. :-)