• Mothra@mander.xyz
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    Grew up in South America and underage drinking, though illegal in theory, is pretty much the norm.

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        Most people I knew started in college. 15 is a bit young. Only knew a handful of partiers who drank in high school.

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          As a non-American, every single American teenage movie I’ve ever watched tells me this is untrue.

          I mean getting alcohol for an underage party is the whole plot of Superbad.

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            As an American emigrant: the red cups are real, but not limited to house parties; alcohol is a lot less accessible, so the party would be more likely to have four different kinds of liqueur from peoples parents or three handles of paint cleaner; getting the cops called on an underage party is serious. Like, potentially lose your job and home serious, even if you were gone for the weekend.

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            It is untrue. You can go to any highschool and find giant parties happening several times a year. It happens at multiple schools, kids travel to the next school over, and they will typical be 100s of kids at these things.

            Maybe it’s changing with gen z but the overwhelming majority of American high schoolers in the 90s and 00s were having drinks from time to time and party.

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        Interesting. I’m in Australia now and people here actually do respect the law when it comes to drinking. If you are under 18, it’s unlikely you will be able to buy alcohol or get into a nightclub etc. It would be shocking to hear someone got pissed drunk at 15, whereas where I come from that isn’t the case.

        From OPs post I presumed US would be more like Australia in that regard, but, I take your word

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          That might be more to do with your social circles. There was a shit ton of teenage drinking happening when I was in high-school.

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            Might be a thing of social circles. For middle working class in NSW, personally, I’ve found it’s not the norm in my circles and I might say it’s also not the norm for even wealthier people- but I don’t rub shoulders with these crowds a lot. I’m sure it happens though.

            My experience elsewhere was that underage drinking was actually the norm across any backgrounds.

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          I lived in Straya my whole life. I remember being 12 and my 13 year old buddy getting fucking drunk as hell on his dads beers during a massive party. It was a rural area though.

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          With the exception of fake IDs, I don’t know if anyone getting into nightclubs or most bars. Occasionally there’ll be a shitty gas station that’ll sell kids beer, but they get shut down pretty quick. It’s mainly kids getting drunk with other kids in garages, at house parties, in the woods, et cetera, because one of them has an older brother, or is dating an older person or something.

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          yes, but leo is 16 in this image, and 16 is nit underage drinking in germany. and 15 is underage, too, isn’t it? it happens a lot and is nothing positive, but here we are 🤷

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            Thats exacly my point. It is not positive and it happens much earlier. In the end it’s less about laws and more about how people think about it