Answer to questions:
What are the differences between Japanese and American Drinkers?
Why does age mater? What is exactly the difference between 21 and 20?

The highest drinking age in the world is parts of India.
People are required to be 25 in order to drink alcohol. Even though the ages are different in most countries, such as Japan being 20 and America being 21, all countries are setting an age to encourage people to be more responsible. Apparently, in most countries, the legal drinking age is 18 years old.


The lowest drinking age is 16 (Countries in Europe). Countries such as Germany set 16years old as the minimum drinking age for beer and wine but 18 for hard liquor.

It is probably the amount of responsibility the person can handle, if children are taught to behave with alcohol since they were young, they are most likely to be able to handle it at the age of 16. In my opinion, I see it as if children are told not to drink until their legal age, they are most likely going to misbehave and abuse their privilages.


Smith, S.E., and O. Wallace. "What Are the Legal Drinking Ages Around the World?" WiseGeek. Conjecture, n.d. Web. 18 July 2012. .