2007-11-22 09:35:41 · 18 answers · asked by j_emmans 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Royalty
like the british royal family - a token family
2007-11-22 09:49:00 · update #1
I really think the world has moved on from needing "token" people to look up to. Role models, yes--but all over the world, the few "royals" left over so often aren't. Times have changed, society has changed. People no longer accept "their place." One's place is where one happens to be at the time. A monarch requires a rigid social structure, and besides these days the monarchs are just figureheads....they do little or no actual governing. And indeed, why should they? With increased education and awareness, the people are more able to govern themselves or at least participate directly, without blindly accepting what one person decides for them.
2007-11-22 23:46:39 · answer #1 · answered by anna 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes and No. For a country like Great Britain where they have a parliment with most or all of the power and the royal family can bring in tourist dollars and social awareness of various issues than it can be good. For a place like Saudi Arabia where the royal family is absolute and making it a medieval dictatorship and with what they allow in their country it's not good. There's a lot of "legal" abuse toward women in Saudi Arabia because their religion and national iealism allows it.
2007-11-22 19:34:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
We have a "Royal" Family. We just choose not to worship them. Right now with the war and gas prices so high, I don't think anyone thinks of President Bush as anything other than a "Royal Pain in the ***".
2007-11-22 18:23:23 · answer #3 · answered by Painter Lady 3 · 5⤊ 1⤋
It's embarrassing . Most other democracies are trusted to elect their Head of State but ours is limited to one disfunctional family.
For the people who say it's good for tourism , let them build a theme park and charge admission like Disneyland
2007-11-23 02:13:40 · answer #4 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No they are a costly embarrassment and Internationally they are a laughing stock how can any one take this country seriously when our head of state represents a massively corrupt regime from medieval times. And those who say they are good for the country have you ever met a foreigner who has bought a British product because we have a monarchy
2007-11-22 17:53:58 · answer #5 · answered by RAH RAH 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
No. they are not worth the money the cost the country. I think we should send Queenie & Philip off to an old folks home and the rest of them can go out and do a proper job for once in their lives
2007-11-22 20:44:42 · answer #6 · answered by JanJan 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I don't like the idea of deferring to people just because their many-greats-grandfathers were Chief Thug.
I know all the arguments against democratically-elected leaders too (who decided that every idiot had to have a vote anyway?), but the whole idea of nobility purely by birth rather than any form of achievement strikes me as too silly to survive in modern society. Sadly, some people seem to like being servile.
2007-11-22 17:44:07 · answer #7 · answered by gvih2g2 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Bloodline based leadership can go awfully wrong when a corrupt person takes the throne. They take a lot of getting rid of, and cause much trouble-'If you could always have just men to be your kings, then it would be well for you to have a king, but as all men are not just it is not expedient that you should have a king'.
2007-11-22 17:44:57 · answer #8 · answered by friedach 6 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Yes, for the comedy value.
2007-11-22 20:44:50 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Tricky!
I don't think it benefits me, but I'm sure it does benefit tourism and exports.
God Bless ya Mamm!
(might get knighted now)
2007-11-22 17:47:23 · answer #10 · answered by Chew 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋