Nice. Only country in the world where that appears to be true. I’m sure any poster who has spent time in China will have seen this and marveled at middle aged men who have the maturity level of a western teenaged boy.
[quote]What makes China unique among other heavy drinking countries is that drinking frequency, quantity, and binge drinking increase with age. The heaviest Chinese drinkers are middle-aged or beyond, while drinking levels in other countries tend to peak in people’s late teens and early twenties.
There is a cultural basis for this difference: Chinese youths are expected to concentrate on education and avoid alcohol, while older people are encouraged to drink during social occasions to enhance friendships and build relationships with business partners. Entrenched drinking customs in China also contribute to the problem, such as frequent dining out, drinking with business partners, toasting (urging one another to drink), and popular drinking games such as ‘Wager’ that encourage excessive drinking.[/quote]
I’ve seen drunk middle-aged Americans, russians, irish, japanese. all drunk. BFD[/quote]
Try reading the article or at least the parts I quote. It’s a big deal
From a health care perspective for one. This isn’t about drinking, it’s about binging and frequently.
From a social welfare perpective it is bad news as well. Frequently drunk people make lousy spouses and parents.
Binge? Frequent?
:lick:
I’ll try and make up the difference for all you slackers.
Pick up the pace, I can’t carry you lightweights much farther.
Only three hours to go until my First Drink Of The Day!
Not necessarily. Within business culture there is tremendous pressure to toast the night away at the frequent dinners. It’s really hard to avoid these without giving offense or looking like a pussy (not great for a guy in that culture as you won’t be respected for standing up for your own principles) and people are absolute children about forcing their colleagues to keep drinking. That’s part of what the article addresses. The need to change the culture. This is, in many ways, just another sad facet of “face.”
Wow, or should that be Wowser! A double woswer* on the rocks. Cast your good eye upon the definitions; [quote] binge drinking was defined as consuming 50g or more pure alcohol in one day for men (about five 330ml tins of beer), and 40g or more for women. [/quote]
Shocking stuff. Time for a reviving slurp. We could argue whether 5 cans is medicinal or recreational, but calling it binge drinking be damned.
And their idea of a “drinker” is bizarre. [quote]The study found that of the almost 50,000 people surveyed across China, 55.6% of men and 15% of women were current drinkers, having had at least one drink in the previous twelve months.[/quote]
It’s enough to drive a man to drink.
I’m off to buy some beer to marinate some beef.
*wowser [ˈwaʊzə]
n Marsupial and NZ slang
a fanatically puritanical person
(Miscellaneous Technologies / Brewing) a teetotaller
[from English dialect wow to whine, complain]