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Originally Posted by pilotbob
If only that were true. Celebrity here also seems to be worshiped. So many people "wanna be" Paris Hilton. What has she achieved? Certainly she was lucky by birth... but that isn't an achievement. Yet so many people seem to value here and follow here every move.
Also, as someone else many in the US equate popularity and riches with achievement. It really is a "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" type issue here isn't it?
BOb
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Well... we also lionize Nobel Prize winners. And Turing Award winners. And leading academics. And successful business people. And authors, musicians, painters, preachers, soldiers (sometimes)...
So a large fraction of the US reads the scandal rags and "wanna be" Paris Hilton. This differs from the Royals.... how? (I'm talking about your "lucky by birth" comment, and not about sovereignty issues, b.t.w.)
I think that the popularity-and-riches thing is a relatively widespread issue that is not unique to either side of the pond.
Xenophon