Essay On Italian American Alcoholism

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Alcohol “a colorless volatile flammable liquid that is the intoxicating constituent of wine, beer, spirits, and other drinks, and is also used as an industrial solvent and as fuel.” Over a certain amount of time, consuming alcohol modifies the equity of a few chemicals in your brain, which is what cause problems with extreme usage of this poisonous beverage. Alcohol also increase the levels of dopamine, creating people to feel satisfied from drinking it. Needless, long-term drinking can lessen or increase the levels of particular chemicals, provoking your body to cry out for alcohol to reestablish favorable feelings or to sidestep pessimistic feelings.
In Drinking Games by Malcolm Gladwell, the Italian and Irish Americans, drinking habits were similar yet different. There was one important component, as to why the Italians had a distinct outcome that the Irish did not have from their alcohol consumption manners. The Italian and Camba’s had healthier customs and attitudes approaching alcohol; they also used alcohol in more sophisticated ways. The cultural discrepancy between the Italian and Irish Americans is why Italian Americans did not encounter the same complications with alcohol that the Irish Americans did in 1950s. There are several cultures in the world that behave to alcoholism in different ways.
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While most generations develop, and grow they become more diluted. The later generations of Italians, morals and culture values might not be sufficient to break them from developing issues with alcoholism. If these Italians go on to consume alcohol the ways they have done in the past, and lose their civilized means of drinking, they will be absolutely like Irish. Alcoholism will go ahead and take