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Originally Posted by Xenophon
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
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Sorry this ist just not right: Overall there are 399 Nobel prize winners in the EU verus 309 in the US ( mayby not 100% correct as some are doule counted) (see list in wikipaedia) Also if you compare individual countries you find 102 in Germany , 113 in the UK which gives them a much higer average per acapita then the US