Wolfgang Schwanke writes:

I didn't know the United States had 300 million ministers.

It doesn't.

Shut up . Oh really this is silly, you are using a very creative mix
of constantly shifting standards and equivocations to defend your
nationalist prejudices, without ever substantiating any of them. I
suggest you give up, it doesn't work.

If it didn't work, you wouldn't be so upset. The truth hurts.

If I had "nationalist prejudices," I wouldn't be living abroad. I just call
them as I see them. And some of what I see isn't the least bit flattering to
Europeans, I'm afraid.

A class means: A set of people who have a different perspective and
different interests than others sets of people.

A class is a group of people with different privileges, obligations, rights,
and status. Classes are thick on the ground in Europe, where everyone knows
his station and dares not stray outside of his social circle. But they are
rare in the U.S.

No it doesn't. There are few countries in Europe who have nobles or
royals at all; someone who claims to know so much about the continent
ought to know such an important fact.

Andorra, Belgium, Denmark, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monacco, the
Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the Vatican all
have monarchies and royals, and some have nobles as well.

And the few countries who do have them do so mostly for fun, not
for political functions.

They have them because they cannot bear the thought of all people being
treated equitably as individuals. That's where Europe and the U.S. part ways.

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