It is an ongoing mystery to me why so many Americans give a rat's ass, one way or another, about the British royal family
To be fair, I am equally mystified why so many Americans give a rat's ass about the Kardashians
I don't blame the tabloid media for this, they are just exploiting people's secret fantasies of being a hereditary monarch. That fantasy been Disney's cash cow from Snow White to the Lion King
I mean, when Game Of Thrones was on, everybody at this site was expositing about which character they identified with, and it was nothing but Cersei or Dragon Queen or Jon Snow etc.
Personally the GoT character I identified with was Manure Shoveling Peasant #835
Personally the GoT character I identified with was Manure Shoveling Peasant #835
The throne-assuming princess/prince hereditary hero ethos is strangely dominant in American narrative story telling. Frozen? Heredity. Star Wars? Heredity. Black Panther? Yep, heredity.
People long ago dismissed the old timey Horatio Alger books, where some poor orphan kid goes from rags to riches though sheer industriousness, as "unrealistic." I dunno, seem more realistic to me than peddling Disney royalist fantasies to 8 year olds
HOW TO RISE FROM POVERTY
Horatio Alger: return dropped pocket watch to man in top hat who gives you a job at his steamship line, work way to top
Disney: wait for a Fairy Godmother to give you a magic makeover so you can dazzle some prince with your glass designer footwear
Horatio Alger: return dropped pocket watch to man in top hat who gives you a job at his steamship line, work way to top
Disney: wait for a Fairy Godmother to give you a magic makeover so you can dazzle some prince with your glass designer footwear
In conclusion, the real lesson we should be teaching kids 
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