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[–] jeffw@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most people I knew started in college. 15 is a bit young. Only knew a handful of partiers who drank in high school.

[–] veroxii@aussie.zone 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] idiomaddict@feddit.de 3 points 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.

[–] jeffw@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Oh no. Wait until he finds out what frat parties really look like

[–] ShittyRedditWasBetter@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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.