Drinking age
...rticipate in. If one can be expected to kill and die for their country, then they have the maturity to look at alcohol as a social activity to interact with peers and adults and not as a way to alter their conscience. In addition, people fresh out of high school are bombarded by many financial institutions such as Wells Fargo and Bank of America. These companies are offering them Visa and Master Cards. How is someone with no credit history and little or no income supposed to take such huge financial responsibilities? They are expected to be able to take on this burden, yet they still can not buy a six pack to get their mind off the fact that they are in serious debt with their new credit card. Most twenty-one year olds that own credit cards want to get drunk when they realize that they have such enormous financial burdens, when eighteen- year-olds don’t even have this option. An eighteen-year-old can die for his country while leaving his family to pay the huge ammount accrued by his quickly accumulated credit card. Yet he still couldn’t drink. The drinking age must be lowered because in the majority of foreign countries, there is no distinction between a right and a wrong age to drink. For instance, Amsterdam has no drinking age, but there are barely any injuries that relate to alcohol by people under the age of 21. This is because all the young teenagers know that they can drink and this leaves nothing to rebel against, there is no hype. If something isn’t prohibited, it becomes something of less interest. Peter Crawford has devoted his life to studying alcohol and drug policies in different countries. He has found that when no boundaries are placed on the use of alcohol, it becomes part of the normal way of life and there is no final destination to reach if there is no age limit. In addition, Mexico’s drinking age is lower than Americas, which increases the rate of accidents involving alcohol. The rate of alcohol related accidents would decrease if the age limit were the same as Mexico’s because there would be no need for teens to travel to Mexico to get drunk. Each year many teens from America travel to Mexico to take advantage of the young drinking age. In the act of ...