Fake IDs: yup. We had a 20 year old from Turkey staying with us for a semester while she attended a local university. She had her fake ID within days of arriving in the US. As someone who in her country (Turkey!) could drink at 18, she was baffled by the whole highly hypocritical system here. She also could not believe her eyes at the binge drinking here. She’d never seen anything like it in Turkey - where she attended an American university – or in Europe, where she spent quite a bit of time studying. Only in America…