Alocholism over E. Europe is caused by... Mongol??

It's a funny thread

Originally posted by Reginmund the Poles are the ones who can't hold their drink, not the Russians.

Reginmund, I have to correct you. The Poles like to vaunt how good we are in drinking. And the Poles like to compare themselfs to Russians in drinking, but the true is that we are little boys compare to Russians or even to Chineses. An average Pole drinks only about 11 dm3 alcohol per year, while an average Russian or Chinese (yes, Chineses are only a little worse than Russians) drinks about 25 dm3 alcohol per year.
BTW, thanks to Chineses, Polish vodka has a good perspective in the future. Thanks to export of Polish vodka to China, its production is increasing a few hundred per cent per year!

Edited by ataman - 27-Jul-2007 at 00:46

I have to say that trying to prove that Eastern Europeans are drinking a lot because of Mongols is one of the most stupid theories I have ever heard. I wonder what will be next? That Hitler was Marsian. I'm sure some of You will have profs and quotes on that too.

In fact, for thousands years, drinking alcohol was a save method of completing lotions and calories. Water was often contaminated by bacteriums, so drinking water was very dangerous. For thousands years a beer was a 'liquid bread' and it was a substitute of water for most of European civilisations.

Edited by ataman - 29-Jul-2007 at 00:54

Just for some people's interests... some of us wrote the petition to the school administration for her incompetence. Naturally, she will just try to retire early to get the pension... but it matters little. She's no longer my teacher.

If you see Mongolian nomads daily life in steppe, there no time to drinking until fall in every week or everyday. Nomadic life is too busy from born to die. So russian alcoholism is their own problem also I don't think there is not much genetic influence from Mongols to Slavs. Russians are part Fin and part Slavs. Have to find their problem from Fins.

If there's alcohol problems in your family, then don't you feel the need to drink yourself into oblivion. 

Originally posted by TheAlaniDragonRising If there's alcohol problems in your family, then don't you feel the need to drink yourself into oblivion.

 

Originally posted by red clay Originally posted by TheAlaniDragonRising If there's alcohol problems in your family, then don't you feel the need to drink yourself into oblivion.      There hasn't been anything solid discovered indicating genetic predisposition of alcohol addiction.  Children of alcoholics are more likely to develope dependencies as they have been exposed to the same conditions that caused the parent or parents to become alcoholics.

My father was an alcoholic, but thankfully had got himself off of the stuff, although unfortunately not over the Christmas and New year period in my earlier years. I still find that time of the year to be difficult, even now, even though he is no longer alive. The funny thing is he was a wonderful man the rest of the time. Myself I'm not really a drinker.

Edited by TheAlaniDragonRising - 11-Aug-2012 at 12:54

Originally posted by Nick1986 The Poles have both a love of alcohol and a large Tatar population. Perhaps that's why other Slavs make fun of them in the same way the English mock the Irish?

It's probably better you ask those Slavs on this forum, Nick.

Mock the Irish? We take it as a compliment!