[naravara]

I'd have liked to have seen more specifics on which cultures were which. I've experienced the drinking cultures from India, Japan, China, France, the US, Argentina, Brazil, and England and in ALL of them drinking alcohol was correlated with what they called "disinhibition" and aggression.

The amounts of each of these things varied, but it's not like it was ever fully absent. So basically, is this is a dependency on cultural norms separate from everything else or does alcohol correlate with any specific about economic development that makes people behave this way?

[skate22]

If i had to take a guess, I would imagine above all else, the reasons people start drinking are going to vary from one culture to another (on the average).

Ive heard the expression: drunk people speak sober thoughts (meaning they hold back less)

People who get drunk to cele brate act different than people who get drunk to cope with something (from what ive seen)

If in one culture it was only socially accepted to get drunk to celebrate, i would expect different behaviour than a culture who only views drinking as a way to cope

Just my uninformed theory