Originally Posted by
Katie09 
Yeah, me too. I am a 100% Nordic person by heritage (Sweden and Norway), so I totally identify with socialism and support it. The Nordic people are infamous for alcoholism. I've studied it a lot. There are all sorts of explanations, but my favorite comes down to Darwinism. And, yes, I am a product of that as well. Anyway, thanks for weighing in!
FINLANDIA!! My great grandmother moved to the US at age 16, and no kidding, every day of her life since she was 15 she drank 5-6 oz. of vodka with her dinner (I'm sure she could stop anytime she wanted to?? Haha). She died at 103, with my aunt smuggling vodka into her nursing home daily.
The summer I turned 21 I studied in Russia; prior to that I never really drank much. So I learned to drink on straight shots of vodka at these insane parties. Russia's another country with insanely high alcoholism rates.
I consider myself something approaching a socialist, but really I don't see what my ethnic heritage has to do with that... unless you're talking... Social Darwinism?
Political ideas are not genetic traits handed down.