American reacts to 'America’s Drinking Age Makes No Sense'
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My parents took me aside at the age of 15, in Germany, and said to me: "Here's our House bar, you can take a glass of everything, but be warned - you will become drunk very fast, throw out anything and have a headache to tell your future grandchildren from" - and exactly so it comes. Lesson learned
I decided to not drink but even after all the times I could've asked for a sip the first time they full front offer me was a bit of digestif(?), I think it was just my hypersensitivity that felt just getting the glass close to my nose was unpleasant so I refused. Well, our law is set just to selling alcohol so it's always for parents to give it to children, and in general there's that "I know you will drink some with friends but we would prefer you drink with us so we know what's going in".
That was like me with cigarettes. I smoked about 12 cigs at a beach party... It did nothing for me, but I could barely speak the next day. Haven't smoked a cig since!
Yes, I thought I was so mature at 16 and joined a fun group binge drinking beer, I was sick in garden, their landlady drove me home, my father went totally mental and shoved me in a cold shower fully dressed - never, ever again! 🤤
It's way weirder that you can drive at 16 in the US.
I'd trust a 16 year old with a beer, but not with a 2 ton vehicle that can go 100 mph...
I got my license at 15 in New Zealand, no restrictions at all so I could buy a V8 for my first car if I wished. Its gone up to 16 now but still a crazy time driving at that age.
@@DomingoDeSantaClaraI thought you had restrictions on the time of day you could drive, like a curfew and not having your friends in the car?
@@Hi_Doctor_Nick I've been away for 20 years so not sure what the rules are, certainly no restrictions when I got mine in 1979. The test drive was less than ten minutes with the cop, went round the block, reversed round a corner and that was it.
@@DomingoDeSantaClara I should really ask my niece, she's a kiwi and just turned 17. I know she's been driving but hasn't done her test yet. She was out the country for a year studying in the UK. Otherwise she would of done it at 16.
@@Hi_Doctor_Nick I'm sure she'll know the rules inside out. I live in the UK, glad I never had to do my license here, it's much tougher.
In USA people starting drinking alcohol when they 21 years old, in Europe at 21 years people quitting drinking.
I wouldn't say we quit. We just don't drink as often as we did. When we were young, we did it because "oh look, this is fun. Let's go to the pub every weekend, " but now we're just kinda "oh there's an event? Let's get some alcahol and have a bit of fun."
I'd say it's more "learn how to moderate" but I actually have mates who've made conscious choices to cut themselves off for a while because they felt like it was turning into an issue, so it's not even a joke lmao
I would say that at 21 we know how and how much to drink to enojy and be safe (well not 21 maybe but close enough)
I drank more before i turned 21 as an ameircan. Now i rarely drink at all. Weed is a different story 😂
Swedish here and yeah when I was 19 I took a break from drinking for 8 years, I drank so much between the ages of 14 and 19 that I was getting worried =) (and the drinking age is here is 18 if you're at a bar, 21 if you buy alcohol in a store)
It's not about the age you can access alcohol... It's about the way you do it.
Spain is the country with the most bars/pubs/restaurants per square kilometer in the world and yet we are not even close to the country that consumes the most alcohol in Europe.
Here you don't drink to get drunk, but to socialize with family and friends.
most country in europe dont drink to get drunk but to socialize, that why poeple can drink when they are younger, they were taught how to drink so they know how to behave, i the other hand poeople of country like the USA who doesnt allow alcohol until 20, dont know how to drink gobeyong what they should and therefore tend to think it is how everyone consume alcohol, so they are horified by the thinking of teenager consuming it, just cause they have no clue how it is done, poeple just learn to be responssible here when they dont in the US :x
If you drink to socialize you failed at socializing.
@@PROVOCATEURSK This... coming from someone called Provocateur... means nothing... Go and buy a friend man...
People in Spain consume more alcohol per capita than people from the US.
Despite that, alcoholism is at 1.5% in Spain (2.7% males, 0.5% females) while it is at 13.9% in the US (17.6% males, 10.4% females).
So, yes, it's the culture around alcohol that seems to be different, but I don't know why.
Well, if you'd met my family, you'd know I do it to get drunk
The whole fraternity thing is absolutely ridiculous to me. If you're at university in the UK, you just get a place to live with whoever you like, male or female. 😂😂
Similar in Poland. There's no such groups here and it seems so weird to me
Yeah, the closest thing we have are clubs and societies, but most of them don't have such rituals for new members and the existing members don't decide who can join. We also don't live with those people (unless you happen to make friends with them and choose to share a house).
Depends on the Uni though doesn't it? I remember some stories about ex-prime ministers having done some weird shit.....like pigs heads...and running the lane of paddles and whatnot.
I had a friend who made the bad decision to go on a leap year in the US when she was 19. Huge mistake, she felt completely humiliated and belittled when she realized shecouldn't go in to a bar or club let alone when she felt like a drink. She really hadn't thought it through beforehand. Also it's a reason why many Dutch students don't like the US a destination for a student exchange.
same in germany..
I’m sorry, I’m trying to find a way to phrase this without sounding patronising- When you wrote “leap year”, did you mean “gap year”?
In my country people are totally starstruck with America. It's like their wet dream. And they can't understand me when I tell them no thanks. They tell me "Why this country or that country, you should go to America man! We are all going to go to America why don't you? Nowhere better!" poor fools little did they know! They all tried the US and some came back, but most of them went to Canada! I know only one person who is still in the US because she was able to crack her way in Hollywood! A colleague of mine said he left the US after 15 years because he couldn't take it anymore. Felt very unsafe and uneasy, he had escaped a couple of public shootouts and also assassination attempts to his girlfriend because she had drug debts! I am not saying I don't like the US, it's just that I wouldn't want to live there. They are good where they are but I am never going to buy into their "land of the free" propaganda! If I go to the US, I am very clear that I am going to the least free among the democratic countries.
@@odorikakeru as a standart european. What the fuk is a gap year ? If you skip 1 year from uni, you are fukd, when you return to uni, unless you didnt study every day while taking a year break.
@@Swarmah A *gap year* is the English term for year between leaving school and starting university. Usually is spent traveling or working.
A *leap year* occurs every 4th year when an extra day is added to the month of February. This year is a leap year.
It really is mad, 18 year olds can have a gun and go to fight for their country but cannot have a legal beer. In the U.K. it is 18 but, a 12 year old can have a beer in a pub with a meal under adult supervision. We would sometime give our children a little wine mixed with water younger than that with a meal at home. If you want to avoid alcohol being a problem then stop it being a mystery and introduce them to responsible drinking when young.
The law is now 16 with a meal accompanied and bought by an adult, and only beer and wine. But they never changed the law about home drinking that is still five years old with supervision.
i disagree , alcohol is a hard drug , that is very addicting , its the most harmful drug that is normalized into society .
drug users are a small minority , where as alcohol is used by a majority , a lot of people die from getting addicted and overusing the drug , so they get wasted and end up dead of injured in a lot of cases.
people should stop drinking altogether , not make it legal or keeping it legal imo .
especially don't make it available for even younger people , u saying that a 12 year old can get diluted whine is fine, is like saying drinking while pregnant is fine.. it is still a child.
@@dslight113 Except it is not even that addicting when it comes to things that are addicting. There are very few that are unable to reduce or stop drinking if they want to, meanwhile basically all smokers have to struggle to get rid of it. It's not an addiction if you drink a lot but you do not want to stop. It's an addiction if you drink and you want to stop but can't. Even coffee is more addictive but I don't see you complaining about that.
@@spugelo359what? Why are you going online and lying. Alcohol is one of the most addictive substanses known to man.
@@dslight113 I would classify alcohol as a hard drug having recovered from both heroin and alcohol problems, I think alcohol is worse, if you remove the damages that prohibition causes. I do not think prohibition is a good policy. We all take risks seeking out interesting experiences and, like it or not, drugs have been a part of that for as long as our species has been finding psychoactive plants, fungi, etc. I am free to take a lot of stupid risks, like driving a car, or walking in a car dependent American suburb with 3 lane stroads with no side walk, but how dare I take a drug that you do not approve of? How dare I take that one particular risk!?
I hated addiction, it was horrible, but I feel like most people don't become addicts for no reason - the modern dystopia destroys mental and physical health most efficiently and addiction is one of the things you expect to see. If people felt valued and were happy, they wouldn't need heroin or alcohol!
When I was in boarding school (in the UK), twice a week the JCR (Junior Common Room) would serve alcohol in the evenings and if you were 17 before the term started: you could go. We were limited to 2 pints per evening, and any teachers still around (and not officially on duty/supervising) could come and join. It was very cool being able to have a pint with your teachers in the evening, almost like we were being treated as adults!
that's pretty cool of a boarding school, my English teacher in public school took us all out at the end of the year for a few but that was only the twice once in 5th year and again in 6th
My late father spoke about the grammar school he attended in the late 40s / early 50s. They had one head who allowed sixth formers to smoke a pipe IF they had written permission from their parents. Everyone respected that rule. He retired, and a new head came in. He got rid of that rule - no smoking at all was allowed. Apparently the playing field ended up with a haze of cigarette smoke!
Jim Jeffries is an Australian comedian who currently resides in the US. He’s got heaps of opinions of America and Americans as a result but his is from an Australian perspective, not that of a European.
But probably not too different from Europeans as we also have 18 as our legal drinking age.
I could see Australia becoming an EU member ;)
Australia is certainly much closer in spirit to many of the European mainland countries than the UK.
Saying that as a German with relatives living in Australia.
I remember.Australia has some strange rules with drinking as well. ( Atleast when I visited some 10 plus years ago ) I ordered Whiskey in some bars and they always put ice in it .When I said I didn't want any ice, they told me 'it's the law '...? Never understood what that was all about.
@@barbarusbloodshed6347Australia is a Continent on its own.
It is not part of the European Continent, therefore it cannot join the EU.
@@barbarusbloodshed6347 Nonsense.
@@Megaloathyou Who are you talking too?
Legal drinking age is 6 years old in the UK at home. In a pub if you are eating a meal you can drink (but not buy)beer or wine (no spirits outside the home yet) at 16, and you can buy alcohol legally at 18.
Edit sorry is 5 (five) years old at home.
Here in Portugal, we used to have it set at 16 for private residence/event/party consumption or in the presence of parents/legal guardians, and only for 'light' alcoholic beverages (basically below 20% at most such as beer and wine), but that got changed to 18 for two reasons:
1 - After some studies came out saying that early exposure to alcohol increased the risk of individuals developing alcohol dependency later in life - this triggered the change and discussion in parliament;
2 - They said that it makes no sense to distinguish between alcoholic drinks and that doing so could send the wrong message out to younger people that there's 'less nefarious' alcoholic beverages than others when alcohol is alcohol, no matter which drink you ingest - this was basically the nail in the coffin for the change to happen.
In either case, kids here knew that alcohol is alcohol, so the change wasn't taken very well for a bit, but it was forgotten rather quickly. I'm pretty sure parents will still give their kids a beer or a glass of wine if the kids are curious about it, since it's much better they have their first contact with alcohol under supervision than having them turn 18 and go binge drinking for the first time without prior alcohol contact because it's cool, especially in college.
The same rationale was used when Portugal decriminalised (which is NOT the same thing as "legalised") all drugs, ending the distinction between "light" drugs (e.g. marijuana, ecstasy) and "hard" drugs (e.g. heroin, crack).
Random guy from Denmark here.
The short and sweet of it is the following:
People are primarity driven by habits. Kids and even teenagers learn a lot quicker than adults.
Moral of the story is "the sooner they learn, the better".
That being said, there's also a point called too soon. 🤣
Yes, you should absolutely have your first hangover AFTER you can read and write
In Germany and some other European countries (like Austria and Switzerland), you can drink and buy beer/wine at 16... (EDIT: but the "harder" stuff like gin, vodka, Schnaps at 18)
14 with supervision of your parents
@@Tom17140 Yup
@@Tom17140in the UK it's 6 (six) with the supervision of parents.
Edit sorry its 5 (five)
Denmark is the same
@@StephenButlerOne Before anyone goes crazy, social services are obviously going to go after you if you let your kid get wasted. I think the idea is so you can either do the french thing with the wine, or have a sip of a beer at a wedding.
Makes just as much sense as not being able to go to a restaurant where they serve alcohol with your kids. Like what: "because there is alcohol, I cant make sure my kids dont drink it in my presence?" Sorry, just makes no sense.
this has to be a joke right?
That’s not a thing.
yes it is in some places@@avengemybreath3084
Makes perfect sense. The less alcohol they are exposed to the less chance they will drink it.
What an idiotic take, like in most situations parents control what their children can do.
Born and raised in Montreal, Quebec. Legal age to drink is 18. Rest of Canada is 18 or 19 depending on the province. Although I started drinking at 16, and ramped up at 18.. lol I started decreasing when I was about 21. Keep in Mind Montreal has 20 colleges, 4 universities, and hundreds of festivals a year.. Always something to do. It is very much so a party city.. Thank God I moved to Ottawa when I was 30. A city that fun forgot... to gain perspective.
You can get married at 18, but can't drink champagne at your own reception.
Makes NO sense, its just stupid
In my part of Canada, the drinking minimum is 18 years and alcohol is introduced at a much earlier age at family events. I never binged and nor did my friends or cousins. By the time we started in bars we were all used to alcohol and were more interested in meeting potential romantic partners.
Young people everywhere binge drink, but the good thing with it not being illegal is that it's being done with supervision and people around to control it if it gets out of hand.
I'm from Slovenia and while the legal drinking age is 18, the vast majority of people try alcohol at 14 or 15 with their parents, and as soon as one of their friends is 18 at a local bar. If u r at the right bar u can get alcohol at a younger age too, i first bought it in a bar at something like 15, just before high school. Noone finds that alarming here and the staff just keep an eye on underage people drinking to prevent any accidents
That's how we do it in Spain. From 15 on, at family gatherings they let you have a small drink or two. You are in a safe space, supervised, and it's a learning experience. You learn to enjoy and apreciate wine/beer/whatever, instead off just binging to pass out.
Love watching your reactions!
I live in Denmark and here there is no lower drinking age, but there are some restrictions when it comes to buying alcohol.
Restaurants and bars are not allowed to serve an underage kid (18yo) alcohol.
From age 16 to 18 you can buy alcohol up to 16.5% at regular stores. When you turn 18 there are no more restrictions.
Most kids start drinking alcohol round age 14, and most often it is at a traditional youth party where the whole family gets together to celebrate the youth “entering adulthood”.
When I went to public school, the last year my class went to Prague, our teachers facilitated a drinking contest for us. (Which I won btw) that was back in 1992. Today that would not be allowed though is Danish law on kids drinking has been changed some, but not much.
BUYING Alcohol minimum age is reasonable, you buy it, you can do what you want with it. Drinking however............
Alcohol is only sold in designated bottle shops or pubs to individuals of age (18). At home? The cops can't see your back room. You want to give your 10 year old a glass of alcohol? That's on you. The Rules here are for procurement of booze for the most part. I ran a bottle shop for 4 years and I cannot tell you what to do with it once you obtain it legally. The issue is duty of care.
In Portugal we legally can drink from 18 forward. However, most children are exposed to alcohol with their families ("try a tiny zip of this wine or this beer"), and usually begin drinking while going out at around 16 yrs old (albeit legally they should not). People do get drunk, they are still teenagers/young adults. They do binge drink. But we don't see so many cases of massive drinking and alcohol coma. Growing up I did go out for some drinks from 16 forward. I did get drunk sometimes with my friends, but still, most of the times you just have a couple of beers or shots. This is true for most europeans, I believe. And it does not create any social problem.
in the uk im pretty sure its legal for a child/early teen to have a half pint with a meal. (if accompanied by a parent or guardian)
Not all college kids are under age. When I was in college in Oregon we all went out every Friday and Saturday night to the three local bars and they were always completely packed. Could never get my head around the Greek system either but they did hold the best parties 😂
Jim Jeffries is absolutely brilliant. Not only is he a hilarious comedian, hes superb at getting his message across.
In regards to the actual subject of the video, I was introduced slowly to drinking at around 13-14, getting to have one glass of either Bacardi or Vodka (parents spirit of choice) and Coke each Friday and Saturday night, slowly being allowed more if i wished. Led to me having a really strong tolerance for quite a while once I started pushing my limits. Early and fairly easy access to it didn't leave me to going out trying to find someone to buy it for me and taught me a lot about the more social aspect of drinking.
Yep! We offered both of our daughters weak gin and tonics from around fourteen. They are both in their thirties now and neither of them drinks much alcohol at all.
21 used to be the legal adult age, back in the day. I'm guessing that's where it comes from.
Sure but why this inconsistency? If you're an adult, you can do everything an adult do. My country used to have adult age at 21, so you could vote, drink, drive, join the army at 21. Then adult age was lowered to 18, so you can drive, drink, join the army and vote at 18, when you're an adult, or, in other terms, you're legally responsible of your choices.
@@Alby_Torino your guess is as good as mine. In my country it's 18 for everything.
I am always so happy I learned to drink before I learned to drive.
Interestingly, the US is also one of the very few countries where getting a DUI, specifically for drinking, seems to be a equivalent to a parking ticket.. here you generally have to retake driving lessons, maybe even lose your license for a long while..
What will Ryan misunderstand today?
Everything because he is dumber than a dumb thing when it was dumber
Almost everything
I think he thinks the Aussie bloke on screen is European
@@eg_manifest510he does. I thought he’d recognise his Australian accent once he started to speak but doesn’t seem like it.
@@eg_manifest510 Yep, definitely🤣
I'm French and at 15-16, on family lunches or dinners, the adults start asking you if you want to drink something. This way you get a supervised and slow introduction to alcohol. Sometimes they don't stop you from drinking, being like "oh, you want to do this. Okay, you'll see how you feel about it tomorrow"
Yeah Jim Jefferies, a real honest "Australian" treasure! He has hit the Americans hard, they needed to be told the truth, and they love it! 🤗👍
I’m from Australia. Our drinking age was originally 21 but changed in the 1970’s. I don’t have firsthand experience with this but I have heard that this was, in at least a part, changed because of the Vietnam war. Australia had conscription and there was a pushback similar to what Jim talked about in the video, except that we changed it. In Victoria, we can also give alcohol to minors in our own homes with parental or guardian consent. My kids have been having low alcohol drinks like a shandy or champagne with orange juice since they were sixteen. When we had a party here, if the kids wanted to drink I spoke to a parent first to ensure it was okay. My eldest is 22 now and has only drank enough to have a hangover once, the other hasn’t ever. They don’t see alcohol as this great unknown they have to experiment with. As for drink driving, we have a four year probational license when you pass your drivers test. If you make it through that time with no demerit points (everything from speeding to drunk driving) you get your full license free. These last for up to 10 years and so it’s a substantial saving.
my parents never taboo'd anything, so nothing seemed like it was a "black jewel of the night, only touched by sinners hands" to me in a way that i needed to try it so bad that i fall into addiction
Those few countries which stick to 21, do so mainly for the historic reason that 21 was the age of majority until about 50 yrs ago. Even the age to drink in public being set at 14 or 16 in Europe is comparatively recent. Up to the late 19th century, or even later, there was no age restriction at all. Because city water was so polluted, even kids drank light beer, even for breakfast!!
A key thing about binging is that it feels like a rebellious act. If you can drink starting at 14, like in Germany, that rebellious feeling never really develops. Also it’s important to also think about learning how alcohol affects you YEARS before you learn to drive. Then you simply reinforce no drinking and driving and you end up with less issues on that end as well. There are a LOT of good reasons to allow drinking at a much earlier age much like other nations.
The minimum age for drinking alcoholic beverages in England is 5 years of age.
...at home with parental supervision and only wine or beer no spirits.
@@zorrothebug Yep. I had a wonderful childhood.
In France there's no drinking age! But you have to be 18 to buy alcohol.
Legal age for drinking in most of Australia was 21 too until the 60s and 70s.
Over here the age is 16 to drink beer/wine and 18 for the distilled drinks. It is tolerated to drink at a lower age at home with parents.
Hazing does happen here also. Students don’t live together, but there are fraternities and every once in a while there are dead’s due to alcohol poisoning (or fish oil and other crap).
Binge drinking is mainly done in the UK since pubs close earlier.
In many countries of Central Europe they don't ask your age when you buy alcoholic beverages in a shop. The reasoning: you might be shopping for your parents. Don't know about bars, but I guess they arent overly strict there either, if you know how to behave. Well, they never asked my age when I was travelling there on a vacation (I was 17 at the time).
2:20 - A friend of mine went through a hazing and was in a frat like 10 years ago. We got drunk and he told me all about it like a month ago.
What I got from it: It’s like the army: Trauma bonding. The hazing is supposed to end by the hazed bonding together and “overthrowing” the hazers.
Growing up in Scotland I was always offered an alcoholic drink to toast Hogmanay (the new year) and I was allowed to have a glass of wine with our Sunday Dinner, but I actually never wanted to do either. I hated the taste of alcohol as a child and as an adult I still seldom drink.
Binge drinking is more common among alcoholics here.
Of course, there are also cases of young people who overdo it at parties, but from my experience they are children of parents who never taught them how to drink, who then completely overdo it at parties and don't know the limits.
If you've never really drunk alcohol, you tend to want to drink more than everyone else, but some peoples body can't take alcohol and fall quickly into a coma.
Experiencing alcohol in the company of the family is safer than starting with friends.
From my experience, it's about everyone at least once. Who listens to their parents when they're 16 anyway?
Most people grow out of it quickly though. Not as if blackouts and alcohol poisoning was a very pleasant experience.
Hi from Belgium,
We in Belgium also have fraternities. When you go to university you can join one of them -> most of the time you join the one that's linked to your field of studie. The universities subsidize the fraternities, because they can help each other in lectures, helping in events for the school,... But they are also for the drinking and fun stuff like partying, singing. New members also have to do weird shit to get in. But it got a lot softer then in the past. Here in Belgium someone died recently participating in a "welcomings" event. That was done by a fraternity, that did terrible things to there new members like letting them stand in a ice cold pit for a long time, drinking terrible things,... And the people who did this to the boy were not getting punished fairly. It wasn't on purpose but still. So it got a bad name in Belgium at the moment. Even though the vast mayority are just for having fun, drinking and they don't have to do terrible things to new members.
J'ai été baptisé à l'ULB dans le cercle des sciences. Ce n'est pas comparable aux fraternités américaines. Vraiment pas.
Would be curious to know what the rules are on other drugs in the USA ?
What s the legal age for tobacco?
What about the states where marijuana is legal?
What about psychoactive substances (mushrooms, cactii, medications?)
What about medical morphine and substitutes?
Also quite surprised that the food and beverages lobby can t compel politicians to change the law...
In Germany many kids start drinking alkohol regularly between 13 and 17. At 16 it's officially allowed to purchase wine or beer, spirits are only purchasable from 18 onwards, but no one really cares if you drink some at an earlier age. Getting one shot glass of ouzo (greek spirit with 36% alcohol) at a restaurant or geeting to toast with sparkling wine or beer is quite standard even for 13-16 year olds.
I've had my first spirit at about 14 years old, wine probably at around 7ish, although barely more than two sips. Both times supervised by my family. And I turned out fine.
I remember a show where they had a kid judging a cooking contest where they had to disqualify one of the desserts because it had alcohol and the kid couldn't eat it. It was wild to me. My dad used to give me bread soaked in wine with sugar on top as a dessert.
I'm not sure how old I was when I had my first alcoholic drink, some where around 11. It was over sunday lunch given by Dad. Not every sunday but if Mum and Dad had a Drink, we did. I grew up knowing what they tasted like and had no desire to drink at the pub until I was a student at nearly 19. Then again I'm British.
So am I, but a girl, but my drinking history is very similar. My parents weren't pub goers, but as soon as we began having holidays abroad, when I was about 15 , I began to be given the opportunity to have a glass from the communal bottle of wine, but never a binge drinker, and very seldom, even in my partying days, drunk/and or incapable!
Drank in Connecticut in 1976 aged19 no problem Tried to drink in Florida1989, bald and bearded and got ID'd aged 32. Nuts.
That's when you say:"Thank you" as you've been found younger looking then you really are. I tend to do that when it happened to me. The bouncher just look wierd and didn't know what to say :D
"I didn't know that fraternities were a weird American thing" - thus demonstrating again the insularity of the US.
We have some moddle thing in sweden. you can drink at bars when you are 18. but if you want to buy and drink at home anything stronger than 3.5% you have to be 20
There are fraternities in Germany too ("Verbindungen"), the focus might be a bit different, the are often very conservative and some do fencing. They have played a political role in 19th century. There's some info about them at the end of this video: ua-cam.com/video/TaMWIQ-8KE8/v-deo.htmlsi=U1B-EO6LFp0nRXPl
Here in Italy too we are used to getting some alcohol since kids. Legal drinking age is 18, but it is common to get some wine with meals, maybe watered down if it's a really small kid. I can't remember a time when I was not allowed any.
Just yesterday i saw a reaction to a NALF video, where he also stated that in the end the numbers of alcoholics per capita in the US are higher than in germany, where we can drink and buy beer and wine already at the age of 16. In public, at home you can already drink with 6 or whatever age your parents or granparents may think is appropriate. For me it was maybe around 6-8 that i now and then drank some wine or even vermouth at my one grandma. Was always fun when i was at her in my school holidays. But way better was that she ha a giant strawberry field at where she lived up to when i was maybe 12-14. Damn, that was soo good in the summer 😍😍
5:54 Binge drinking is definitely a problem in the UK, or at least it was the last time I was there. It happens when there’s a mix of people who don’t know (or care about) their limits, and an oversupply of alcohol. Basically it becomes dangerous when there’s nobody around who’s responsible for cutting off the access to the alcohol (which is one of the problems inside frat houses).
thing is with binge drinking u grow out of it. by the time you are 18 here in UK nobody binge drinks
Mum knew kids like the taste or beer. We about 6 when if she was drinking something, she would get us have the last drop. If we wanted to taste something, we got a small sip. She also raised us with a clear, detailed understanding of how alcohol affects the body and brain and ways to minimise the impact. When we got to the age we're my friends were starting to drink, there was zero curiosity. When they got to the binging point, we were "Let's go before it gets messy." Now, I only use alcohol in cooking or desserts.
At age 15 one of my cousins got married. The 'reception' was held in a back room of a pub. Once the formalities were over everyone congregated in the bar. My dad bought me a pint, then my uncles did likewise. This was probably illegal. It taught me why binge-drinking is a bad idea....
3:45 In Belgium there sure are fraternity-like groups. Not so long ago a kid died being being abused to join their group, and it became a big thing here with many people questioning the whole hazing part of those groups. In case you're interested; "Sanda Dia" is the name you'll want to look up.
Nobody cares. And i'm belgian
I had free rein over alcohol from about 15 years old
Now I'am 21 and my mom has to force me to drink during festivities a few bad headaches and throw up's are the best teacher it works mainly because drinking here isn't just for the cool kids but basicly every kid has drunk some alcohol so the temptation of "if I drink I will be one of the cool kids" isn't there anymore
Some countries have set two different age limits for alcoholic drinks, such as here in Finland, where the age limit for mild drinks is 18 and for strong drinks is 20 (though in Finland, you can legally serve all alcoholic drinks to 18-year-olds in a restaurant).
We're from Australia where the legal drinking age is 18. Our daughter was really miffed when we went on vacation to Vancouver Canada, where the legal drinking age is 19!? and she went from being a responsible adult back to being a minor overnight because she was 18.
In Australia the national drinking age is 18 however a lot of teens start drinking at home or with friends at parties at around 16.
We have fraternities in the Netherlands and Belgium. At some the same stuff happens with students dying during the "acceptance" period (don't know how to translate to English). There are more and more tight rules now so it barely happens anymore.
I'm from the UK in a small village. My parents let me have a glass of champagne at the millennium (I was 7) but that was obviously a one off. from about 13-14 I was occasionally allowed wine or beer with dinner. my school had parties from 14-17 and the majority of us showed up with alcohol bought by our parents. Then they knew what we were drinking. I was bad and started going out to bars etc from 15-16. We'd always have a parent pick us up around 1-2am. So When my 18th Birthday came around it wasn't this big thing. One girl's parents used to test her alcohol levels and when she turned 18 she went off the rails. By the times I was 21 "going out" was something I'd been doing for 5 years so I wasn't that bothered. We would just meet at the pub for a few drinks. and yes we did go out occasionally and get off the charts drunk, but wasn't often. I see pictures of people getting married in America and I'm like.... you cant have a glass of champagne legally to toast your wedding? Thats ridiculous.
Here in Finland you can go to bars and buy beer, cider, wine and such at 18, but you can't buy strong liqour or anything above a certain alcohol percentage until you're 20, also I've sen some clubs/bars who choose to have one night/weekend where they will only allow 20+ year olds in, but that is up to the establishment itself, it's not a legal thing
I find it interesting how Ryan always brings up Europeans, even if the person talking isn't from anywhere close to Europe. Maybe in his mind Australia (where Jim Jeffries is from) and the continent of Europe are equally foreign.
It's typical for americans to think (question mark):
Rest of the world = EU, communists
Or
Rest of the world = UK
@@UltraCasualPenguinnot just Rest of the World = UK. Rest of the World = London.
@@atorthefightingeagle9813 I haven't seen that but I forgot one: american reacting to video where Australia is not even mentioned. "Putting Australia's flag in to thumbnail sounds like great idea".
An American education does most everything but that.
I think in the Netherlands binge drinking is mainly a thing because as soon as you go to the bar (afterwards) it is way more expensive. Also a big incentive to do drugs in a nightclub.
My parents decided that forbidding me from drinking alcohol would just make it more likely to binge. I was allowed to have alcohol as long as I was at home and it was either mine or I asked first. If I wanted something, this was when wine coolers were big, I’d give Mom money from my allowance and she’d buy it for me. It took the taboo out of it and demystified it. Also taught me not to drink if I did have a ride home later.
5:50 I don't know if it is a problem but it is quite popular in high schools in Poland. At least in some groups.
Meanwhile at uni in England I would chat with teachers about what party drugs I tried the previous weekend 🤣
Yes, students still drink a lot when it's legal. But we have to not be too drunk to get into the club, so maybe that helps. Students drink and they get very drunk, it's just what they do. It's a huge part of uni. America is just super conservative about alcohol and fun stuff in general (except weed... you're oddly liberal about weed in comparison to everything else).
In Portugal we have in university a kind of fraternities called "repúblicas", similar in some ways but different in others.
You'll probably like this from Jim Jeffries: Gun Control + Freedumb
One of the advantages of learning to drink under parental supervision is that you get a feel for the effects. My dad gave me a beer when I was about 13 first just after eating, and then the next day on an empty stomach so I could tell the difference food makes.
Here in Canada, drinking age is 19 except in 3 provinces it is 18.
I know that as a parent, I'm allowed to provide a drink to my teenagers, so long as it isn't in excess and they consume it under my supervision, within my home.
Historically, 21 was seen as "coming of age", which was the age of legally becoming an adult.
Since most countries have revised the legal age of adulthood down to 18, the drinking age has also been revised to 18 (or lower for some situations).
As for Fraternities, the only rough equivalent I can thinkof here in the UK, might be some of the colleges that make up Oxford or Cambridge Universities (see former Prime Minister David Cameron and his intimate encounter with a pig).
Coming of age in Ireland is 18, so you can drive a car, get married, have children, join the army, vote, and believe it or not, have a beer.
We get introduced to it slowly when we are younger, also getting taught the lesson early makes it stand out more imo.
I was warned, I didn’t listen, I regretted it the next day and my parents said “told u” and helped me come back to my senses.
That’s how we do it
I had my first major hangover before I "should" have and have been on alert with drinking ever since because it was not a fun experience that I would like to repeat.
In North Carolina the age of criminal responsibility is 6 years old.
I'm 31 so place that where you will, but on weekends my brother and I were always given white wine watered down with either lemonade or orange juice at Sunday dinner from age 8 onwards. At Christmas and Easter we got a small glass of the stuff without it watered down. Neither of us have drink issues. I've been drunk, often am still today, but I know my limits and when to call it and go home. It's a lot of respect and knowing not to make yourself the idiot and knowing your limits. It comes with time.
Here in Ireland 21 would never work 😂 18 is basically ignored too! I remember going for pints after school 😂😂
I’m from the UK and I started drinking at 13 years old,I was spending every Friday and Saturday night out drinking in pubs at 16 and was done with alcohol by the age of 25.
Started drinking at 13 here in Spain, no one ever told me if i could or couldnt. Had my fun with friends, never did anything extremelly crazy, quit drinking about 13 years or so later. Never became addict or dependent, i just wasnt having fun anymore, so i just decided to stop. Now i drink maybe 1 or 2 beers per year on special ocasions like a music festival or a birthday and that's it.
In Alberta the drinking age is 18, but my grandfather was offering us drinks from like 13 or 14, probably to get us used to responsible consumption. Nationally, past-year alcohol use has been pretty consistent among Canadians over the age of 21, but it's been fallen sharply among the 15-19 demographic, and the amount of binge drinking has also declined, so the mean age of first alcohol use has gone up and is now over 18.
When I was 10 to 12 years old, we used to drink table beer during dinner with our parents. I'm 35 now and I turned out fine, I'm not an alcoholic. I'm from Belgium
Jim Jefferies is amazing. You have to check out his bit on Gun Control.
What enrages me is that often kids under 18 are tried as adults (f.e. in murder cases), or, worse, be forced to carry babies from a rapist to term at f-ing 10 years old, but they can’t buy a beer until they’re 21…
I'm from the UK, we've had issues with binge drinking, but not in the same way as the US.
For context, these are the alcohol laws in the UK:
- you can drink at home from age 5 (no that does not mean that 5 year-olds are getting drunk, it means that sometimes kids try a sip of their parent's drink or teenagers have a weak alcoholic beverage at Christmas)
- you can drink in public with a meal and an adult present from the age of 16
- you can buy alcohol from 18
Under 18s (typically 16+) sometimes have house parties where parents may or may not be present. Unlike in the US, these parties are not typically raided by police.
Those 18+ may have house parties, but more typically would go to a pub, bar or club. Particularly in clubs, some people do drink excessively, but if they're in a bad state they'll be sent home and bouncers won't let excessively drunk people into clubs.
Police officers sometimes hang around outside popular places on a Friday and Saturday night, partly to make sure there's no issues but also to check on people who look like they need help.
Our country's issues aren't related to drinking age, but rather cultural influences and the normalisation of binge drinking. However, this has started to change in recent years and Brits overall are drinking less than they used to, but particularly the younger generations are drinking less than their counterparts did in past decades.
Side note: how have you not heard of Côte d'Ivoire? There's only 2 countries on that list that I didn't recognise.
I’m originally from the UK, used to go for a couple of pints at lunch time from college and university, shoot some pool. None of us binge drank, didn’t have to.
I get the idea of hazing. It acts as kind of a "ice breaker" type deal. And if it's not done to an extreme and you kind of let the person in on it (get to know their line and comfort with it) it can work.
But there is a hard line between hazing and outright abuse which I have rarely seen NOT crossed in fraternities.
My grandfather made his own wine and as a kid I was allowed to take a sip at the dinner table. By sip, I mean about an ounce. To this day, I don't like to drink beer, but a little wine now and then is OK. And it's still just a little bit, not even half a glass.
Jim Jeffries. Australian with a great sense of humour. In Australia, the “legal” age fir drinking is 18. I would get into night clubs with a fake ID and drink. However, my parent allowed me to have an occasional drink with family on special occasions well before I turned 18.
The reason its 21 in the US is the drinking age was set state be sate, so in a state where the age was 21, under 21's would drive to the next state, drink, then drive home drunk and this caused many deaths. President Ronald Reagan supported the cause to set a national age for all states and so the mechanism he used to enable a national law of 21 was by threatening to withhold federal highway funding to states that didn’t comply.
Jim is Australian though 😂 his standups are very funny
When I was young (I'm now 65), hazing was a common thing in high school for Freshmen, usually at the hands of the Seniors. Fortunately, when I entered high school, I attended a pretty progressive high school in central Vermont that banned the practice.
Thing is I binged every Friday and Saturday from the age of 13 until I was 21 then the hangovers started doing me in for days. I got fed up and now I don’t really drink. On special occasions I might have just 4 bottles of beer and then stop. I think I just got it out my system so early
I am from the UK , i have relations in USA, my cousin used to travel across the bridge in detroit to go to canada at weekends when she was in college so they could drink legally
Cote d ivoire is Ivory Coast in it's original french, I first thought Nauru was Niue so that would make it 2 countries in the list that I haven't heard about.
On a visit to Atlanta a few years ago I was in my 50’s at the time. I was refused a drink because I didn’t have any ID, on holidays my passport is kept somewhere safe, not in my pocket. My driving licence is kept at home. The stupid thing is I look over 50, certainly over 21. In the UK it’s the barman’s duty to ensure they are serving over 18’s. I understand it can be difficult to decide if someone is 18 or 21 but when they are 50? One of our supermarkets decided for all to prove their age for alcohol. Carrying ID is not a requirement in the UK. I can order alcohol online from a supermarket and a note that I must be over 18 is shown. The delivery driver doesn’t physically check my age or ID me.
Greetings from germany! We have a big problem with binge drinking alcohol within the underaged community too. It's not all about the drinking age, but it's part of the problem to drive the kids into a corner. But it's a problem here too where you could drink much earlier. Mostly binge drinking is a common thing for kids that feel like they have nothing to lose anymore and that see in heavy drinking one of the only choices to proof to be "old enough" to make own life descisions and feel "adult".
I love how on this side of the pond in at least 3 countries that I know of "binge drinking" is just drinking for most young people weather they go out to clubs or there's a party of any kind, in Spain and the UK mainly it's not really seen as much of a problem at all, people have this mentality that it isn't because they have a problem it's just that they are hard or tough and they can take it (yeah no shit the more you take something the more tolerance you build, you're not special), they are genuinely proud to be slowly poisoning themselves at a much faster rate than the rest of us who just enjoy a drink or two occasionally, maybe even 3 on a "wild" night. Also as a former binge drinker myself during my late teens and early twenties I can tell you it's just as harmful to your bank account, I can go out on a weekend now and spend 20-30€ and that's a good night when I was 18 I would spend over 30€ before 11pm and I very rarely got home before 4am.
I do think for most young adults binge drinking is just a thing to do for a few years from the moment you legally can drink, some take it to heart and make it a lifestyle but fortunately most do grow out of the whole blackouts every weekend mentality relatively fast. Might have something to do with the fact that we are exposed to alcohol long before we can legally drink too and it's always portrayed as a cool and fun thing, and you do have some great times (if you can remember them the day after) but the amount of horrible nights and shitty situations, fights, wallets and keys lost, coats lost, relationships ended, acquaintances lost to DUIs, visits to the hospital for alcohol poisoning, long etcetera. Just not something you should be wasting your time, money and health on, you really don't need to get blackout drunk to have a good time but for some it seems to be embedded into their mind that the more they drink the better the times are.
An US guy summerize to me the typical "party" in US :
8pm, you arrived at the party and socialize
9pm, drinking game
10pm, you are drunk, but continue drinking game
11pm, you throw up in the nearest bush
12pm, you are sleeping somewhere completely random (or in your bed if you are lucky enough to have friends that aren't in the same state as you)