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Originally posted by Taualumna
A friend of mine worked in Europe over the summer and she said that the young people over there weren't nearly as crazy about alcohol as they are here.
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That's right, they're not. That's because alcohol is not "taboo" for them and most have been around it since they were small. Even when I was in Ireland, I never saw anyone abuse alcohol the way I've seen people do over here, and you know how everyone thinks all the Irish are drunks. Most people I saw would drink every day, but they wouldn't get sloppy drunk, it was just something to do to relax at the end of the day. The French and Germans that I was around were like that, too...the only possible exception I can think of was the English people I knew, and they did tend to get smashed, but at least they were halfway responsible about it, you know, they didn't go driving cars or anything. Alcohol isn't the problem, it's what people do with it. My parents have always let me drink here at home, and I think that's why I don't drink much at all when I go out; I usually don't even drink at all. Americans are so uptight about all the wrong things.
