Serious Drinking

“Can serious drinking be part of one’s cultural heritage?”

Alcohol relates differently to everyone. Between heritage, race, ethnicity, and family, alcohol can take a different path. Most nationalities have a relation to drinking. For example, Irish people are associated with drinking beer on special occasions, Italians like to sip a glass of wine during dinner, and many other cultures have customs like this too. 

Most countries today established a drinking age. In the United States the legal drinking age is 21. Albania, Armenia, Jamaica all do not have a legal drinking age. It is known a socially and legally acceptable to drink at very young ages. Germany, Greece, and Spain currently have 16 as their legal drinking age. Most commonly countries use 18 as their legal drinking age. 

Personally I believe that 21 is the most logical drinking age. As humans our brains are not fully developed until or around age 24. Drinking too much alcohol at a young age can be extremely harmful. Because of our drinking age that is set in the United States, I believe that it causes less of a chance to develop a serious drinking problem.

"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."

Oscar Wilde