. . . . "Institutionalized elitism, ethnocentrism, classism, racism, sexism, adultism, nationalism, heterosexism, and ageism are some examples of structural violence as proposed by Galtung.[citation needed] According to Galtung, rather than conveying a physical image, structural violence is an avoidable impairment of fundamental human needs\".[2] As it is avoidable, structural violence is a high cause of p" .