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In three pages this paper examines Gladwell’s article in The New Yorker and considers its positive approach to how to drink in a constructive manner and also examines how American society is reluctant to convey such a message. Two sources are cited in the bibliography.
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constructive examples of how to drink. Instead, punitive laws and college penalties are imposed on Americans who drink in what has been legally determined to be an excessive and
destructive manner. Gladwell bases his conclusions on Dwight Heaths anthropological study on the drinking habits of the Camba group of Montero, Bolivia, which were published in a September 1958
issue of the Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol, and on research studies conducted by anthropologists Craig MacAndrew and Robert B. Edgerton and psychologists Claude Steele, Mahzarin Banaji, and Robert
Josephs. The author persuasively argues that culture, rather than law, is the most powerful tool that can be implemented to provide positive drinking examples (Gladwell, 2010). Heath described the
Camba weekend ritual of drinking hundred-and-eighty proof rum, which is such a strong alcoholic content that it is typically used not for drinking but for repairing tissue (Gladwell, 2010).
However, these "drinking parties" were dictated by a strict cultural protocol with sociable exchanges between the host and the "toastee" (Gladwell, 2010, p. 72). Furthermore, while these parties lasted
from Saturday night until the Camba went back to work on Monday morning, there was no other drinking during the week when the laborers concentrated on working long hours.
In addition, during the parties themselves, there were no emotional outbursts or acts of violence. The revelers simply drank until they passed out. There was, Gladwell (2010) wrote,
"pleasant conversation or silence" (p. 73). The Camba drank in groups and because they adhered to the party ritual of their culture, there was no increase in crime or
incidences of alcoholism. In their 1969 study "Drunken Comportment," Craig MacAndrew and Robert B. Edgerton reported on the drinking patterns of central Kenyan tribesman, and considered one in particular who
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