I've always been surprised by the fact that alcohol, among teens, seems to have a higher cool coefficient in countries with a higher legal age. Over here I never experienced it as something awesome or rebellious.
What was your experience?
I've always been surprised by the fact that alcohol, among teens, seems to have a higher cool coefficient in countries with a higher legal age. Over here I never experienced it as something awesome or rebellious.
What was your experience?
As an American who went to college at 16 and graduate school at 19, I truly, deeply loathe my country's drinking age laws. It was common that group projects ended with everyone going for a drink, forcing me to go home alone since I couldn't enter the bar.When I was 17 and studying in Heidelberg, I drank pretty much every night. And I still got straight A's and never got picked up by the police, even when I returned to America. The 21-year drinking age is a triumph only for puritans and tee-totalers. But I guess we had to give them something after we ended prohibition in 1933.
ReplyDeleteYou know, I was about to respond in seriousness when I remembered something.You once complained to me that someone said that you were "more educated than most Americans", and you rightfully felt that your nation was unfairly slighted.And yet here you are, admitting that, between college at 16 and grad school at 19, you're basically a cool version of Doogie Howser, MD.I put this to you, sir: are you, or are you not, more educated than most Americans? :)In seriousness, after all, I do agree with you. A major effect of such an unreasonably high drinking age is that alcohol becomes more of a thrill, more of a phenomenon!
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