Anonymous OP 4w

I studied abroad in Austria at 16 and that’s the legal voting and drinking age there. I came back and realized America treats everyone like children lowkey

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Anonymous #2 4w

The issue is deeper than just laws, it’s the lack of an American drinking culture/culture around alcohol. Our drinking culture is party and binge drinking, or sobriety. All or nothing society, like most things. Hell even if someone engages in what’s considered healthy drinking in other countries (like a glass of wine with dinner) they’re heavily judged. And wine with lunch??? Alcoholic right there

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Anonymous #2 4w

It’s less our drinking culture in my opinion and more the fact that our culture is very conservative. Many people don’t want to admit that Americans started with a puritan culture. Drinking is looked down upon but so are topless women and healthy sex lives. We are very anti-drugs in America. We treat being human and experimenting/learning limits as taboo rather then actually teaching a tolerance or an understanding of curiosity

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Anonymous #1 4w

the thing with American culture around a lot of things is that it’s polar opposites. Take your examples: topless women HORRIBLE NO WRONG ILLEGAL. Yet sex sells, so overly sexualized women (and men) are on the forefront of most advertisements (hardees/carls jr burger ad). Sex lives: never have it? Weird prude, destroying American values by not having kids. Have too much? Gross whore. Drinking: drink too much, moral failure alcoholic. Don’t drink: what’s wrong with you don’t you know fun?

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Anonymous #1 4w

We are a country of prudish addicts. Can’t piss in public, drink in public, breast feed a baby too vigorously and slip a nip in public, yet sex is shown in all of our media, alcohol/nicotine/caffeine are displayed as normal every day parts of life, and not engaging in it is seen as wrong. Very flip floppy

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Anonymous #2 4w

This is a very young American mindset though. I don’t think it’s a very polar culture as you get older. We are working on breaking out of that mindset so the younger generations are being more open. You see things like those opinions online but we wouldn’t have a discussion like that offline. Sex will always sell, but women being topless isn’t always sexual. And many magazines get shamed for having sexual vibes. There are still places where it is unacceptable for women to openly breastfeed

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Anonymous #1 4w

My grandparents don’t want to drink and think it would inappropriate to see me drunk at a family gathering or it would be rude for me to be drunk at a work event. Culturally that is prudeish. When I lived abroad in Europe people would discuss their favorite place to vomit after getting shitfaced at a work event, even if they were 50-60 years old. There is this mindset we should be more conservative in general in public in America

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Anonymous #1 4w

Sex isn’t shown in all our media and we have laws restricting what movies count for what regarding sex. Nicotine and alcohol are normal things. And we don’t treat them normally there are places in the country where you cannot buy alcohol in grocery stores. We are absolutely a prudish culture but we aren’t addicts. We make addicts with our culture and it’s very clear in your mindset that you haven’t been outside of the country if you think we’re flip flopping.

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