So an American doesn’t win this year’s Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine, and some pundit declares the awarding committee “biased” and “euro-centric”!
Euro-centric? For the record, the U.S. has 308 Nobel Prizes. More than any other country (France has 57). My guess at the time was that the fact that a Frenchie won bugged them real bad.
I soon got confirmation when Frenchman Le Clezio won the Literature Prize.
I already knew many were pissed when the Nobel Committee called American literature “isolated” and “insular.” But being lectured by a Swede gotta be far less annoying than losing to a Frenchie.
I mean, check out the title of this page: “Did He Have to Be French?” Note that most of the commenters admit that they haven’t even read Le Clezio!
Or how about this Bloomberg column: “Le Clezio’s Nobel Throws Lifeline to French Culture.” The reference is of course to this Time article. The passage of, well, time, isn’t kind to the Time.
Frankly, what a bunch of whiners!
