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people can hold there liquor

eer then this behavior leads in many situations to murder. . Yet when it comes to their own inner groups no blood is drawnno matter how drunk they are. They exemplify a society in which the ingestion ofalcohol in no way blurred their ability to recognize what was for them a fundamentaldistinction between in group and out group. (22)society does have an influence on our behavior To me, many factors attribute to behaviors while intoxicated, we are influnced by the people around us at the moment , our own mood, maybe due to our enviorment ,and in some situations our health . " A drunks mans words are a sober mans thoughts " , was once told to me and as i read this article i kept recalling that line , these cultures all have varied behaviors while intoxicated , and alchol would either be the cause of there differences or would not influence them in any certain way . "Cross cultural research shows that the view of alcohol as necessarily disinhibiting is misleading. Cultural conceptions and societal expectations produce wide reactions in drunken beahvior" We do so consciously and subconsciously. The articles displayed four types of cultures and each had a different way of reacting to being intoxicated. The Camba and the Mixtecwere the peaceful people. They are peaceful because that is what they were taught to be.They werent taught to be sexual while drunk, they were taught to simply follow theirtraditions respectively. The Mixtec were trained in the home on how to react. As childrenthey knew the repercussions of misbehaving. But at the same time the Kaingang werealways fighting with one another and that is why they were becoming a smaller people. We all in some way can be categorized as a Tribe , usually when we drink , we drink as a group. Our own behaviors make up the behavior attributed to our "tribe" and each spec of that behavior has in some way been affected by our society , " Cheer`s" to some , may be a war chant , or a motivatio...

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