"teen drinking is very bad.. yo i got a fake id though"

in class we talked about teen drinking and how glamorized it is here only because it isn't allowed. in other countries where the drinking age is eighteen or lower, it's no big deal, and they would look at the way teenagers drink here as juvinille and embarassing. but the only reason drinking is so glamorized here by teenagers is the mere fact that it is not allowed. if it was a normal, everyday thing like brushing your teeth, it wouldn't be something to rebel against, and teenagers wouldn't feel so urged to do it. i think that the drinking age should be lower for this very reason. if teen drinking wasn't so frowned upon by society, teenagers wouldn't feel the need to get ridiculously drunk and make a big deal out of it every weekend. i agree with sal that it does make it more dangerous, the fact that teens have to hide their drinking, because if something bad should happen, the people in charge are other teenagers who don't know how to react and don't want to get caught, so they might not make the right decision to help the person in need. the only reason teen drinking is so bad, is because society makes it that way. if teen drinking was an okay thing, it probably wouldn't go to the dangerous extent that it does now.