Drinking at the Age of 18

On many people's blogs there has been a lot of discussion about the drinking age of 21 in the U.S. Americans should be aloud to drink at the age of 18. How can we be adults and not aloud to drink? The common complaint is that Americans can go fight in war and not have a drink. While a big worry about allowing 18 year olds to drink is that unlike a lot of other cultures, the American culture tends to abuse alcohol more. If you look at the Europeans, alcohol is so common and introduced at such a young age that it is not a big a deal to drink. Children drink wine with meals. When alcohol is not allowed and resisted from young adults, there is a higher tendency to want to try it. A good law that some states have, such as Texas, is that kids are aloud to drink with their parents. This is a good way to introduce alcohol to kids. It teaches them to learn how to drink responsibly. If a parent never lets their kid take a sip of alcohol and then sends them off to college, the kid will go crazy. So, it would make our culture more responsible to start drinking at younger ages.