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> Not true. Go to Eastern Europe and see.

Oh oh, "yes true", and your note confirms it... What did Eastern Europe aggressively do, in the last century? Destroy aristocracy. So they are at the opposite end of that particular scale.



> What did Eastern Europe aggressively do, in the last century? Destroy aristocracy.

Well, I wasn't a big fan of it, but the reality of the matter is... for most of us, someone else destroyed our aristocracy (and all of our intelligentsia with it) for us.




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