21 years old today and I’m going to head out with the boys for a few drinks down in Fortitude Valley. We all meet up a few minutes from the nightclub district. My friends decide to go to TheMet, we begin to drink, 2 drinks, 4, 6, 10 at this point we decide to head home.
Suddenly, I hear what seems to be an insult towards me, I’m infuriated, and I lose it swinging towards the young boy knocking him unconscious as he falls helplessly towards the cement kerb. Blood begins to trail into the gutter and down the drain.
Drinking is a social norm in Australia, people often go to pubs after a day’s work to blow off steam, and some go out during the night, it is such a regular occurrence that some marketing campaigns now focus on “having a cold one”. …show more content…
What is a fun night though? What is a good time? These are subjective, which means something that is viewed as wrong by the Australian society could be seen as a good time to someone else. “Australia needs to change perceptions of what behaviour is socially acceptable while intoxicated.” Says TheAge. This can be done through our education. Awareness needs to be raised and parents need to be re-educated on the dangers of drinking to their kids.
Australia’s culture has gone way too far, other countries believe us to be drunks, and Australia day is viewed as being a day to get drunk and nasty. What a stereotype to be placed on Australia! There were 54000 cases of protective custody, that protective custody being too drunk to look after themselves. The annual cost of alcohol-fuelled violence cost 100 million. Alcohol-fuelled violence accounts for more than half of all murders. The stereotype is accurate.
It definitely shows that Australia has a problem with alcohol consumption and violence. So Australia’s culture has gone too far and is still heading in the wrong direction. America have a restriction on alcohol until the age of
Suddenly, I hear what seems to be an insult towards me, I’m infuriated, and I lose it swinging towards the young boy knocking him unconscious as he falls helplessly towards the cement kerb. Blood begins to trail into the gutter and down the drain.
Drinking is a social norm in Australia, people often go to pubs after a day’s work to blow off steam, and some go out during the night, it is such a regular occurrence that some marketing campaigns now focus on “having a cold one”. …show more content…
What is a fun night though? What is a good time? These are subjective, which means something that is viewed as wrong by the Australian society could be seen as a good time to someone else. “Australia needs to change perceptions of what behaviour is socially acceptable while intoxicated.” Says TheAge. This can be done through our education. Awareness needs to be raised and parents need to be re-educated on the dangers of drinking to their kids.
Australia’s culture has gone way too far, other countries believe us to be drunks, and Australia day is viewed as being a day to get drunk and nasty. What a stereotype to be placed on Australia! There were 54000 cases of protective custody, that protective custody being too drunk to look after themselves. The annual cost of alcohol-fuelled violence cost 100 million. Alcohol-fuelled violence accounts for more than half of all murders. The stereotype is accurate.
It definitely shows that Australia has a problem with alcohol consumption and violence. So Australia’s culture has gone too far and is still heading in the wrong direction. America have a restriction on alcohol until the age of