• veroxii@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    As a non-American, every single American teenage movie I’ve ever watched tells me this is untrue.

    I mean getting alcohol for an underage party is the whole plot of Superbad.

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      1 year ago

      As an American emigrant: the red cups are real, but not limited to house parties; alcohol is a lot less accessible, so the party would be more likely to have four different kinds of liqueur from peoples parents or three handles of paint cleaner; getting the cops called on an underage party is serious. Like, potentially lose your job and home serious, even if you were gone for the weekend.

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      1 year ago

      It is untrue. You can go to any highschool and find giant parties happening several times a year. It happens at multiple schools, kids travel to the next school over, and they will typical be 100s of kids at these things.

      Maybe it’s changing with gen z but the overwhelming majority of American high schoolers in the 90s and 00s were having drinks from time to time and party.