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I think "21 = ok to drink" is ingrained enough in American culture that it's not going away. Only time will tell, though.
by chipperyman573 8y ago
I think "21 = ok to drink" is ingrained enough in American culture that it's not going away. Only time will tell, though.
- wyldfire 8y agoI think that's not the case. Lots of adults were alive when that age limit was eighteen. A small handful were alive when it was prohibited entirely. US (still, despite recent politics) receives immigrants from around the world who have a very different culture with regard to alcohol consumption.
- eric_h 8y agoI certainly didn’t wait til I turned 21. Going to bars was a big part of the social scene at my university, and fake ids were quite common.
- learc83 8y agoIds are getting much harder to fake with REAL ID requirements, and a lot of jurisdictions are very tough on bars that serve to minors even if they had a fake id. An easy way to deter fake ids that was pretty common even a decade ago was to have off duty cops checking ids, so that being discovered can result in jail time instead of just getting kicked out. They even have apps now that can detect most fake ids.
- gowld 8y agoAnd we take another step forward to the authoritarian police state; throwing people in jail for trying to do things that jailers did freely when they were younger, while boosting employment opportunities for the agents of the state to make their money by renting out the privilege of their authoritarian power.
- learc83 8y agoJust to be clear, I'm not advocating anything I mentioned above. I am very much opposed to the practice of hiring off duty police officers to effectively rent the power of the state.
- ataturk 8y agoExcept for the fact that nobody waits to become 21 to drink.