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...deal about the Spanish culture, I also gained some valuable insights about America. All of my Spanish friends and coworkers had warned me specifically not to run in Pamplona. They reminded me that every year one or two Americans are killed and countless others are maimed, because they abuse alcohol and then take deadly risks...
...Spain, alcohol is as much a part of the culture as it is in the United States, but Spanish youths know better than Americans how to regulate themselves. To drink beer at night is considered almost unmanly—rum and scotch cocktails are the only things anyone drinks at the bar and disco. And yet people stay within their limits so nobody ends up passed out or vomiting in the gutter...
...Spain, alcohol is treated in a much more sensible manner. Sort of like riding a bicycle, learning to drink alcohol is done at an early age, before adolescents develop the desire to rebel and deceive. Children grow up watching their parents drink wine at the dinner table and beer in front of the television, so they are exposed to responsible drinkers from a very early age. In Spain, singing and dancing take the place of keg stands and beer pong...
...time teenagers begin to drink and go out at night (around age 15), they have developed an understanding of the power and danger of alcohol. They do not revere it as a wonderful substance that can turn sad times into happy times—rather, they see it as an accessory to food, an object that augments good times but doesn’t create them...
...attitude towards drinking and teaching children to drink—one that leads teachers and parents to preach abstinence and children to pay their local winos to buy them bottles of booze at the liquor store—is completely backwards. Parents are conditioned to fear alcohol among their children, and children are conditioned to rebel by drinking behind closed doors because our laws forbid them from doing otherwise...