Shaylim Tejada
Student Id: 0515561
Prof: Patricia Jones
ESL 111 – 100
Lowering or Raising the Drinking Age
The drinking age may vary depending on the place we live. It doesn’t
matter if it’s a developed country or not, but each of one has a law that
determines the age when drinking is permitted/legal. The United States is
one of those countries that have a minimum age of 21 for drinking legally.
Lowering or raising drinking age has been a very controversial topic but no
change has been made, however, lowering the legal drinking age may result
in better control of drunkenness situations and bad conduct in college
campuses.
The United States, is one of the 12 countries around the world that
have a minimum legal drinking age of 21 years old, and the highest
minimum legal drinking age of all countries. The 61% (115 countries) have a
drinking age of 18 and 19 years old.
Nowadays, when kids graduate from high school they have in average
seventeen to eighteen years of age. They are excited to live a new
independent experience outside their homes and their parents “laws”. Most
of them, believes they are finally free to experiment things that under their
parent’s protection they can not do. Regarding this, in the article “The
Drinking Age Should Be Lowered, Fast,” Je6rey A. Tucker writes “Most of
these kids have never been socialized in what it means to drink responsibly.
They are living for the thrill that comes with de/ance. The combination of
new freedom, liquor and sexual opportunity leads to potentially damaged
lives.” In other words, when kids feel the freedom, they don’t even think
about the consequences.
Having a minimum of 21 years old to be able to drink is a6ecting
colleges and university campuses, because the security safety sta6 have to
