In the modern world, everything is fast-paced, so most people in first-world countries take stimulants to stay awake and concentrated with their work. Many of them take these stimulants daily just to wake up in the morning, and if they quit, then they will feel depressed. In other words, they are dependent on these drugs, so they keep consuming it, causing the high demand for stimulants. There are many types of stimulants, such as caffeine, amphetamine, and methamphetamine, but the most consumed one is caffeine because it comes in many foods and drinks, such as coffee, tea, soda, and chocolate. In Malcolm Gladwell’s “Java Man”, caffeine is the drug of choice for the modern world because of coffee’s success in the American Revolution. …show more content…
In Gladwell’s essay, he says Americans drank coffee because they rejected the tea tax from the British (233). Although Americans nowadays do not associate their coffee drinking habit with the American Revolution, the popularity of coffee still remained. During the revolution, many Americans drank coffee, and eventually, it became and remained as the social norm. Similarly, Americans still eat fast food such as hamburger, fried chicken, and pizza. Furthermore, coffee was only popular in the United States because other countries did not suffer the tea tax, and tea was not common in other countries. Eventually, coffee spread to the entire world because of western globalization. If the tea tax did not exist and tea was the norm in the United States, then tea would not spread to other parts of the world because they already had