Looking at the drinking problems of the aboriginal peoples and ethnic minorities of the world, most anthropologists put them down to pressure, seeing this as a symptom of the inability to adjust to rapid cultural changes.
針對世界各原住民族及少數民族的飲酒問題，一般人類學者都引用壓力理論的解釋，視其為對快速文化變遷下無法適應的行為表現。