St.Daddy's Day

It sounds like Father's day in Germany is St.Patty's day in America. But comparing intensity of the event, the formal win out. I've learned that through the culture texts that Germans enjoy beer and drink them daily and almost for every meal. This means that their tolerance for alcohol would be higher due to all that training. Then I can't imagine what it would be like if those Germans go all out. Not only would they drain all the alcohol in the country and do the alcohol companies good, but also might cause riots, like the one Ann Arbor had in South U.

But then I wondered, do Germans really drink that much? So I googled it and the wikipedia page indicated that Germany's actually only the 24th highest country in alcohol consumption. All countries that had a higher consumption was in Europe or was Korea, which is quite ironic since Koreans are a lightweight. But I think culture really has to do with this outlier. Korean alcohol culture is really bad in that it's almost required for one to drink outside of work. For example, if a group of colleagues went out to eat, everyone is required to drink until they're having a good time. If one refuses, one might face repercussions in work.

As the Koreans have their own alcohol culture, Germans have their own culture of simply enjoying beer on a regular basis and going crazy on Father's day, or as I call it St.Daddy's day. It's quite interesting how an exact same holiday  serves a different purpose on each culture.