Bakery Hill wrote:New haven america wrote:The arguments you were using was like testing recent contact Native American's alcohol tolerance and using it to explain drinking problems in Europe and Asia. Of course the Native American's would produce negative results, they don't have the experience with alcohol that Europeans and Asians do.
1.That is far more a social problem than a genetic one. 2.There's lightweights and there's heavyweights but a vast number of colonised societies across the world don't typically drink themselves half to death because they're not quite as good as holding their liquor.
1. That's the point, their argument towards me is that social and ethnic differences are the cause of problems and mistrust
2a. Yes, but what they were sourcing doesn't apply. Even if you're a lightweight, you still know your limits and can plan or handle situations accordingly. But if you've never experienced something, and are expected to handle yourself at a professional level, it's not going to work most of the time.
That's the problem, they used an area of the world that's not historically diverse, and tried to say that applied everywhere, when it doesn't. Now, if they used more source that included areas like: The US, Canada, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Singapore, China (Which is actually pretty diverse, surprisingly), etc... Then that would help their argument, but they didn't.
2b. Uh... They kinda did, look up The Canadian Whiskey Trade. It is awful.