How should we understand all these things?
- The state/tourist industry: it is cultural heritage of ethnic minorities, it is simply ‘beautiful’
- The public health official: it is a health risk – lack of knowledge, lack of information
- The sociologist: it reflects societal problems – power inequality, shortage of employment opportunities, discrimination against ethnic minorities, problems of internal colonialism
- The anthropologist: it functions to help drinkers overcome something, inside (a psychological, temporal escape of inescapable social inequalities) or outside their heads (smoothing social relations, building social networks, etc)
