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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How old are the kids and where is the trip? That affects what I would do.  [/quote]
Excellent questions.
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Exactly. If they are 18 yo teens and in a country where it’s legal to drink, I’m not doing anything.  If they are 13 and in the US, that’s very different.  [/quote]

We're French, and in France teens can drink beer and wine at 16. That doesn't mean a group of teens should day drink and smoke during a tour, ruining the experience for the rest! What nonsense, PP. Please realize your ideas of different cultures are not accurate, and that it's particularly disrespectful to locals when silly tourists think "anything goes" when they're abroad.

The tour company must abide by its rules anyway.[/quote]

Is the purpose of your post to brag about being French? Because the PP certainly did not insult your teen drinking culture like you seem to think she did.[/quote]

PP you replied to. 
1. No French person thinks being French is special. It's only a small number of foreign weirdos who think belonging to a certain nationality is "cooler" than others.
2. The poster in question, who responded very rationally to my post, was making a statement about other countries generally. I gave a specific example to make sure readers understood that just because drinking age laws are different in other countries, it doesn't follow that people there allow their kids to drink willy-nilly on any occasion. No French parent I know would be OK with their teen drinking and smoking on a group tour. This also goes under the heading of "tourists behaving badly". Some French tourists abroad probably behave badly too! But I understand that the poster's main point was the age of the teens and the parent not being a direct eyewitness.
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