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Originally posted by damasa
This is also a pretty shallow view on youth if you ask me. You had some good insight in your post but when I read this I realized that you fell victim to the "most young people shouldn't drink because they can't handle it" crowd. That's simply not true because alcohol doesn't play favorites and it doesn't care about age. Anyone can be an uncontrolled freak and I tend to think that "most youth" are not but instead get labeled this way because of the few that are.
BTW what one American Greek says does not speak for all Americans in the greek system. I'm sure you'll find some in the Canadian system that have the same feelings because it's bound to happen no matter where you go.
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Yeah, I was pretty bitter when I wrote that because I just went to a party on saturday and in my experience it is the younger people who go overboard with the drinking. I'm sure some of it has to do with experience, but I still don't think it's necessary for everyone to have a very negative drinking experience before they learn how to drink responsibly.
As for the American Greek - I didn't let him bias me. I know I have sisters all over the US who did not join for the drinking aspects. I just get annoyed when I see the stereotype in action.
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