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Reading Europeans' comments on threads like this leaves me wondering who is more ignorant about America, me (as an American...) or them. I don't know anyone wh
by rootusrootus 5y ago
Reading Europeans' comments on threads like this leaves me wondering who is more ignorant about America, me (as an American...) or them.
I don't know anyone who goes out drinking to get drunk. I know people who socialize with friends and drink alcohol while doing it. I know some people who have a glass of wine or two with dinner. I myself drink a couple microbrews once a week with friends.
But what I'm getting from our European friends is that everyone they know from America is an alcoholic.
- ardit33 5y agoSelection bias, of where they stay. If you come as Tourist in the US, and stay in the center of any large city you are bound to see hordes of drunk people in the weekends... usually on their 20s. But that's not what most of the US is though. 3rd ave in Manhattan, from Lower East Side, to Murray Hill turns like a zoo, (pre covid), around midnight, with drunken 20 something acting like it is spring break. The rest of the areas of NYC are not like that, but tourists are more likely to stay near these places, rather lets say, somewhere sleepy in UES, UWS, Brooklyn, or Queens.
- smegger001 5y agoI knew people like that in our mutual early 20s a few years have gone by and now nope. I may drink once every other month or so on out D&D night. Much of that was because my mutual friend group were all from a background of strictly religious upbringings where alcohol was not considered acceptable so no one had a model of responsible drinking. all of us having gained independence around then I was the only one not getting hammered every weekend. (mostly because i don't like beer). but we have all aged and become more responsible and realized throwing up sucks.
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