Yes But I Was Drunk Analysis

In Engstrom’s piece, “Yes… But I Was Drunk”, ideas regarding speech communities are expanded on, more specially the speech community of college aged people. It discusses how the way people talk about experiences influences and is influenced by social change. It then dives into the perception of college drinking and how alcohol consumption does not merely lead to bad decisions, but instead explains how certain habitual ways of speaking normalize underage drinking and justify bad choices. This same idea of how talking about something normalizes the behavior that follows it can be applied to interactions in everyday. Further exemplifying the notion behind normalizing behavior is the growing fear of Islamic people in our country, also known as