In 2003 when I moved to Germany and spent the weekends over the whole summer going to village shooting, hunting, wine festivals around where I was living I noticed that the community organised these things much like carnivals in the Peak District villages. The locals all drank too much and were generally bladdered, but there was no fighting, no bother, a little exhuberance but no destructive behaviour.
The same was witnessed in Holland (except Rotterdam), Norway, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, Austria and Italy. Go to Poland though and you start to see the same drunken destruction as you do in England, then Croatia, Russia the same.
It seems that England isn't the only place where it kicks off with Booze, but so many places don't.
Having said all that, the most obnoxious pissed up twat I met was in Aussie bar in the Rydges hotel in Doha and he was French. The biggest set of cunts, vicious ones at that were Aussies in the Ski Resorts around Nagano in Japan.