Originally Posted by
Mountainmanbob 
How things have changed a couple of hundred years ago and I think most people would have considered being a drunk sinful behavior today almost nobody does interesting are we smarter today?
M-Bob
Yes we are, much more in fact. Just as we don't believe that Sun revolves around the Earth, we now much more about how the brain functions than we did even 40 years ago.
We also have evidence based-research, rather than circumstantial, hearsay or subjective opinions, about how, when and where we are likely to see addiction.
Labelling alcoholics as bad people (behaviour certainly is) can't possibly be helpful. If we put out the idea that alcoholics are people who are prone to cheat and steal, the natural reaction of the alcoholic is to deny they are one.
With regards to Asians not being prone to alcoholism, all I can say, is anyone who says that has clearly never laid a foot in Korea. Alcoholism and abuse is a very present reality in that country, perhaps due to 40 years of Japanese colonialism, division of their country (in some cases families) and a devastating civil war.