{"id":3705,"date":"2014-01-16T08:05:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T13:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/china\/?p=3705"},"modified":"2014-08-30T13:32:09","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T13:32:09","slug":"underage-drinking-in-southeast-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2014\/01\/underage-drinking-in-southeast-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Underage drinking in Southeast Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apparently<\/a> the Mint Museum of Toys in Singapore is worth seeing. Although I have not been, it seems that they currently<\/a> have an exhibit up on “Guinness by the decades.” This should not seem too odd. The Guinness folk have a long history of humorous ads that might appeal to kids.<\/p>\n

\"MyGoodnessMyGuinness-Ostrich\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The Guinness Book of World Records<\/a> was an important part of youth culture when I was a wee nipper, since we often had to settle important arguments and needed a source of authority that knew more interesting facts than our parents did.1<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Guinness also seems to have been in Southeast Asia for a long time, adopting its brand to the local culture. From the exhibit<\/p>\n

\"SAMSUNG<\/a><\/p>\n

I wonder how well the whole ‘Guinness for strength’ thing fit in with Chinese ideas about medicine and food. Here is a more modern place mat, which is on my office door<\/p>\n

\"Mulan2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Mulan is trying to convince the other soldiers that she is indeed a man by drinking 11 pints of stout. Just 3 more and she can go surfing!<\/a><\/p>\n

So not surprisingly there is all sorts of Guinness swag spread all over Southeast Asia<\/p>\n

\"GuinnessbytheDecadesPhoto_zps32cbecee\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I don’t know how well the exhibit does with the way Guinness, a brand sometimes associated with Ireland, was acculturated into Southeast Asia, but I will be charitable and assume they did a great job with it.<\/p>\n

When will this interesting exhibit come to our Children s Museum here in Pittsburgh? When hell freezes over, of course. In the U.S. any suggestion that childhood could happen in the same places alcohol exists is unthinkable. It may take a village to raise a child, but that village better not have a pub in it. Apparently in Singapore kids are part of the general society, rather than a special Disney version.<\/p>\n

  1. Our debates did not take place in pubs, and I don’t think any of us associated the book with the brew, or even knew it existed. ↩<\/a><\/p><\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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