There seems to be a difference when it comes to alcohol in our country and others. The thing that shocks me most isn't the fact it's become the norm in many countries, but because of how dangerous drinking can be and that many other things that are less harmful receive more punishments then situations involved with drinking. In this blog i will discuss what i have noticed within growing up in a small town in New Jersey, from what i have seen of people and alcohol, and what might need another look at and possibly in the end run, help benefit our country as well as many people.
It seems every day there are movies that come out that involve teenagers or adults drinking way too much and having incidents happen. We can even turn on the news and hear about people that end up in the hospital or even people ending up dead because of excessive drinking or binge drinking. The thing that seems to sadden me by having such a negative impact on our society today especially our children is that of it being glorified in movies. The perfect example for this is the movie The Hangover 2. This is based on not only drinking, but drugs, and to the point the characters in the movie have no memory of what situations happened the night before. It comes down to the fact those younger people will see this, think it’s funny, and might try it themselves, or find it entertaining if it happens for them, not realizing the horrible outcomes that could happen.
It seems our society is the one that tries to control the age limit to have such negative thing happens, even though we tend to glorify it, but it seems we are the ones that really do not have things under control at all. Have any of you drank before you were of legal age? Or even drank too much, that you might of gotten sick, or even ended up in the hospital? We have so many laws and ways to stop underage people from drinking, yet more and more, we hear of parties being busted and teenagers drinking, teenagers getting sick, going to the hospital, and worse dying. Is it acceptable for us as a country to let this continue? Are these laws we have set in place working for us? Or are they making things worse? With the way society keeps going, it’s scary to see what the future might hold for our children, for those we will teach.
There is another thing that boggled my mind that is a tad bit off the path of alcohol, but along with this negative drug affecting our society and children. With more rules and laws being put on our society to have a drinking age be set, and such negative outcomes if they are disobeyed, does it seem this is the cause for young teens finding another “high” from every day substances? Do you think because we have not socially grown up with alcohol as not being a thing to do at a party, but an everyday ideal like many countries, would young teens still be prone to doing things to alter their minds and their lives?
Is it okay for our society to accept drinking alcohol as they do?
There is another thing that boggled my mind that is a tad bit off the path of alcohol, but along with this negative drug affecting our society and children. With more rules and laws being put on our society to have a drinking age be set, and such negative outcomes if they are disobeyed, does it seem this is the cause for young teens finding another “high” from every day substances? Do you think because we have not socially grown up with alcohol as not being a thing to do at a party, but an everyday ideal like many countries, would young teens still be prone to doing things to alter their minds and their lives?
Is it okay for our society to accept drinking alcohol as they do?
I agree with a lot of points you brought up. There are many more movies that you could use as an example along with Hangover 2, and thats really sad. If you take a look at movies from thirty years ago, the most drinking you'll see is if you're watching a western. The entire point of The Hangover is that the guy got drunk and woke up the next day, thats what I got out of the movie. I feel like a lot of movies now are just like that, another example is Beefest. I think that movies used to have bigger pictures than that. It's like society has grown to accept that children are going to try to drink before they are even of age.
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