Ramblings about some current news

While the EU discusses to forbid alcohol for under aged people, which means youth under 18, you can see the problems for this law in the US.
In the US they make the experiences with alcohol later but more excessive.
I discovered that during my internship in the US. All the people under 21 got so crazy about alcohol and just couldn’t handle it. But they were all grown-ups and not 16 anymore. We in Germany are like that when we are 15 or 16.
I mean everybody probably love to make party and of course alcohol is has to be present then. But in my case I can handle it and know when I have enough. In the US I had the experiences that nobody knows when it’s enough. They just got senselessly wasted.
I also talked with lots of people about that problem and some said that Americans are so multicultural and some cultures, like the Asian and Afro-Americans, just can’t tolerate alcohol. I can understand that, but Europe is different and I think it won’t be better if the law to forbid alcohol is too strict. Right now in Germany it is allowed to drink wine and beer with 16 and stronger stuffs with 18. I am also fine with the new law to forbid alcohol under 18 but I think the age of 21is too old. Hey you are supposed to be an adult and an adult can mostly handle alcohol, exceptions are always there.

Let’s see what the EU decides…

http://www.tagesschau.de/aktuell/meldungen/0,,OID6512276_REF1,00.html