[ SECRET POST #3717 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3717 ⌋

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Comments

[diet_poison]

I hope you're not laboring under the delusion that most Americans actually like our archaic drinking laws lol

[(Anonymous)]

Haha, this.

[(Anonymous)]

For real.

[kallanda_lee]

I didn't say anything about liking...though I have certainly noticed an uprightness. Like, I had beer when I was 11 where several adult knew and no-one cared. If this is common in America I apologize, but I met a few Americans who were really weird about underage drinking, or even drinking in public.

[diet_poison]

I mean, some people over here are very weird about it haha. It's kind of unfortunate.

[(Anonymous)]

There is definitely a more puritanical culture in America, I understand what you're saying.

Though, random opinion here: The main reason for our laws though, imo, is because Americans drive everywhere. A lot of places in the US are spread out farther than Europe, and many places don't have reliable public transport besides Uber and cabs (and some rural areas not even that), which are pricey. So, more of Americans drive long distances in general, and when the drinking age was upped to 21, accidents went down significantly.

So imo, its a combination of an uptight culture and the fact that a lot of people get in trouble with drunk driving.

[kallanda_lee]

Well, that's the funny thing, see, out drinking age tends to be lower, but our driving age higher, so it sort of evens out I think.

[tabaqui]

So very, very, very *little* reliable public transportation. I've only lived two places that had it, and those were city buses and they weren't available 24 hours a day.

[(Anonymous)]

This. With a very few exceptions, most American cities aren't set up with reliable public transit systems to get you from place to place. Our cities are mostly designed to be used by people with cars. Ditto our suburbs. Where I grew up, the bus doesn't get all the way out to the suburbs (which border farmland) so if you don't have a car, you can't go anywhere.

[kallanda_lee]

That sucks, I'm sorry.

[(Anonymous)]

It's the same in Australia re: distance and public transport, but we don't have a higher drinking age and we have fewer road deaths per capita than the US.

[(Anonymous)]

When there's a rule you have to follow, you kind of convince yourself it is correct on some level, even if you disagree with it. So a person might not *really* have a problem with people under 21 drinking, but still might think "I'm supposed to disapprove of this." Conditioning, I guess? Add that to the fact that not all Americans share the same opinion and you're going to get a lot of inconsistency.

[(Anonymous)]

There was a huge temperance movement in the US in the late 1800s and also Prohibition (which sprang from that earlier movement), and the effects have lasted a long time since Prohibition was repealed. Underage drinking is still seen as a Very Bad Thing here compared to say, places like France or Italy which have millenia-long histories of alcohol production and permissiveness when it comes to appropriate ages for consuming alcohol (it's not unusual for kids to have a bit of wine, that kind of thing, in the US that's not common).

[otakugal15]

Lol, even over here, so long as there are no authority figures (i.e. Police) around, most adults don't even care. Unless it's at a restaurant then yes, they care because that's serving to a minor. But as for families? Unless that family has super strict parents (i feel for their kids), most don't give a shit. Hell, the very first time I got drunk, I was at home with my mom and we drank the entire glass of homemade wine my Papa had made before he died and it had been sitting in the fridge for 4 years.

I think I was...18? Yeah.

[(Anonymous)]

Hell, even in restaurants, a lot of restaurants don't care as long as it's your parent (or the adult that you're with) who orders the drink.