What do you think?

India is one of the fastest growing economies in the world.
Thanks to globalization, industrialization, liberalization, IT revolution or whatever term you want to associate this with!!! It has also increased the cultural diffusion in India – that is spreading of multiculturalism - the desire to consume and enjoy foreign products and ideas, adopt new technology and practices, and participate in a “world culture”.
What was once a prohibited attire has now become the latest trend in our streets. What we used to speak fluently has now become a foreign language for us. What was once our staple diet has now become second to Pizzas, burgers etc. All these changes are good or bad depending on your perception.

Talking about perception, our thinking towards drinking has also changed in recent times. Drinking alcohol more often than not has or had negative connotations in India. One would usually hate people who gets drunk badly. We call them drunkards and not drinkers. But this attitude is fast changing.

Researching about this topic in Wikipedia, I came across these different types of drinking:
1) Binge drinking : It refers to drinking alcohol solely for the purpose of intoxication
2) Social drinking : It refers to casual collateral drinking, usually without the intent to get drunk.
3) Session drinking : It refers to drinking in large quantities over a single period of time, or session, without the intention of getting heavily intoxicated.
Binge drinking always exists in India but what is more worrying is the increased instances of social drinking. Recent surveys showed that the sale/consumption of alcohol has increased rapidly in recent times. This attributes to the increasing number of social drinkers in India.

Think of this familiar situation. You wouldnt have tasted alcohol in your life. You go to a party and your colleague offers you a glass of wine. You hesitate a lot and finallly you have it. You start drinking thereafter in most of the parties you attend. This is very fine until it is within limits. But reality is that this social drinking would normally turn into binge drinking (Finally you may even get addicted to alcoholism). Usually young people are more prone to this. Although few doses of alcohol doesnt affect you much but addiction to it definitely affects the central nervous system and impairs the region of brain controlling behaviour, emotions etc.

Whatever may be the case, always follow your values. Your value system refers to how you organize your ethical or ideological values. Its your moral code of conduct. If your value system says that drinking alcohol is bad, then dont never or ever think of drinking alcohol.

Now that you have finished reading, what do you think???
Does increased acceptance to social drinking harmful to the society?????