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Americans are severely developmentally retarded. America is the only country in the world in which a 20-year old is too immature to drink alcohol, and is almost the only country in the world where there are jurisdictions in which a 17 year old is not mature enough to consent to sex.
In one state in India, the drinking age is either 25 or 27.
In many countries in Latin America, the youth only leave the house at or near marriage, or perhaps to go to college. In that case, they often return to their house on the weekends to pick up food for next week. Some even stay past marriage. It seems like the majority of middle-class people in Mexico (not speaking for other Latin American countries) have "muchachas" who at least do their laundry and often cook or do other chores. With the family unit being tighter many Mexican girls of college or further age act as allo-parents to their nieces and nephews.
From what I have seen they finish high school at the same age as the US. If they grow up faster its because there is not enforced drinking age, higher crime rates, and a good chance mom or dad may get a knife pulled out on them on the way home from the market.
Stuff gets stolen easier, even crappy cell phones need to be concealed in many areas. Forget about having an Apple product out in the open.
My 14 year old cousin once grabbed a woman's hand who was trying to pickpocket her at an outdoor market for a cheap cell phone.
I came to the US when I was 16 and thought it was funny seeing the High School kids bragging about having a beer.
In Venezuela, most kids start drinnking at 12 and by the time they are 16-18 they are drinking just like any other adult (not going around bragging about it)
Yes and no. As someone already mentioned, affluence/class has a significant role in the answer to this question and whether this should be perceived as positive/negative on either side.
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Yes, a couple. Sri Lanka, Palau, and a handful of Muslim countries, in many of which drinking is illegal at any age.
For Muslim nations, it's their religion. Nothing retarded about that.
I honestly don't see drinking as an indication of maturity, especially considering how many people lose their lives due to alcohol or are victims of abuse involving alcohol in Latin American (and the Caribbean) countries, generally speaking. Too many people are never able to properly handle it.
Agreed. I don't see how drinking correlates with maturity. My first thought when I saw the words twelve years olds getting drunk, I wondered how that effects brain development. I think their is a reason growing bodies should abstain from certain things.
Just a thought, but the youngest female to ever have a baby was a 5 yr. old girl from Peru. That is pretty darn young, not only to have a baby, but to be having sex.
No 5 yr old would consent to sex. She most likely was raped.
However,it seems lots of men from latin America are attracted to girls ages 10 on up.
Women from latin america seem to dress their little girls in that age as adult woman.
But maybe they do that once they get to America?
On the flip side,lots of older women from latin America seem to have a younger boy toy.
But the men attracted to younger tweens? That is disturbing.
What is even more disturbing is that it might be normal in most of the world but the Usa and some parts of Europe.
No 5 yr old would consent to sex. She most likely was raped.
However,it seems lots of men from latin America are attracted to girls ages 10 on up.
Nice, you're accusing a whole sub-continent of paedophilia. Can you back that up?
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