I gather that the Germans are a bit more responsible about drinking.
Specifically not getting blitzed. Which leads to the question of
how to get that across the pond into the American culture...

I think you get that across the pond by treating drinking as a normal adult
pastime, and ostracizing people who over-do it. Our culture has evolved
(at the legal level, anyway) into treating drinking as quasi-criminal and
thus, for the younger crowd, romantic. In this atmosphere it becomes the
forbidden fruit.
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