I thought the purpose of bars was to buy drinks. They might be there for that. That would explain the fighting.
Not these bars, they are not at all similar to “Cheers”.
The bars that I refer to have dozens of naked or half-naked dancing girls that you can take home for a price.
Bar brawls art part of the English (not necessarily British) tradition. A Scotsman once put it like this “We fight each other in Scotland and we definitely fight Englishmen but outside the island we leave it to the English to take care of their bad reputation themselves”.
Is this a woosh?
They’re on holiday and they are drinking.
They may not know that that is what they are there for. We Brits see a boozer, we go there to booze.
Brits fight for a variety of reasons. It is a part of my homeland that I really don’t miss. But it happens in the UK too and we still manage to have sex there (for example, see our teen pregnancy rate).
Who said that? Sounds like a pile of shite to me
Maybe, but I would guess that when the bar is full of half-naked dancing prostitutes then most Brits would realize what type of bar it is.
Just add this to the list of why I like Scottish people so much. 
I’ve heard of Cracker Barrel - it’s the chain of restaurants who won’t hire gay people, isn’t it?
But the opinion would be that it doesn’t mean you can’t go there to drink.
Ok, many Brits love to drink and fight, got it.
I will defer to your background but add that I always thought it had something to do with designating one’s caste.
(Ignorance fought, and all that.)
Lest foreign tourists be dissuaded from helping our economy, let’s point out that your own cite shows Thailand with “only” about twice the rate of U.S.A. and less than one-twelfth the rate of South Africa.
(Of course, you mention “AIDS rate” as just “an example.” Any other examples, or should we just leave it as a baseless smudge?)
It was a Scottish football fan interviewed by a Swedish newspaper in connection with the European cup in Sweden in 1992. It also coincided with the general observations here of the differences in behaviour between Scottish and English fans at that and other times.
Drink and lose fights, to be precise.
Crap another place I have to cross off my list, really Cracker Barrel you have to be bigots
It is getting hard to eat anywhere in the states
Cracker Barrel’s anti-gay founder died in January. Maybe things will change?
There are bars in Thailand where you can just go in and get a drink, no half-naked dancing prostitutes, right? Or if you just want a drink, do you have to do your best to ignore the prostitutes?
It’s not somewhere you should be eating very often if you value your health, anyway. But that’s true of most sit-down chain restaurants in the US.
Space and money. There is so much more livable space in the US compared to most other first world countries. This lead to the rise of suburbs which allowed everyone to have their own house and yard, but everyone has to drive to get anywhere. This means there is very little exercise that is unintentional.
After WW2 the US economy grew like gangbusters, this led to a huge spike in living standards. Suddenly people had money to use on conveniences. One of those conveniences was packaged foods. Housewifes loved the convenience of being able to feed a family without toiling all day in the kitchen. Unfortunately most of this food was not as good tasting as made from scratch. As the economy kept getting better people starting going to restaraunts more and more. Here they could get convenience and better tasting food. Since food in america is cheap and labor expensive it was very cost effective for restaurants to serve increasingly large portions. Restaurant food is convenient relatively cheap and tasty so people eat alot of it. The US is about 10-33% richer than the rest of the first world countries so we are further along this progression than most other countries.
There are other aspects of it that has to do with anti-smoking campaigns and a diverse population as well.
Strange, I’m English and I’ve never participated in, or even seen, a bar brawl. I don’t see any reason to think English people are especially prone to fighting anywhere.
I’ve seen a couple in 37 years. I saw one in the US in a two-week holiday.
Stereotypes are stereotypes, but most people everywhere are just people trying to live their lives.
Speaking as a Brit I’m afraid that the reason we like drinking and fighting is that many of us do, but couldn’t tell you why.
I can only think that its a part of our Norse/Saxon cultural history.
Unfortunately its not a GOOD thing.
Not for us and not for anyone else.