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In The USA, this is a weekend of partying. Drinking, eating, dancing, and more drinking. As everyone could imagine, that translates to drunken violence. Which is cultural. People in The USA love to get drunk and fight. We're celebrating a battle which was fought in another country, in a war which they lost...
For many Americans, yes, it is. Or, it is if they live anywhere near the U.S./Mexico border. And you're right, most Americans will take up any excuse to drink themselves into an unconscious mess...well, the Americans I've known, anyway. Except for myself--I've never really acquired a taste for booze. Just so no one misunderstands, I'm not a teetotaler or morally opposed to alcohol; normally, I'm just not in the mood for it and would rather have a good cup of coffee or a diet soft drink. And even on those occasions when I DO want an alcoholic beverage I'm usually in the "one and done" camp. Maybe "two and done" if the first one got good to me. But that's it. In fact, the last alcoholic beverage I drank was about a year before the last turn of the century; the very tail end of the 1900s. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯