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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>About the fact of knowing if Scrooge could ONLY be
an american character, i don't agree, for many reasons; first, that wasn't an
obligation in the past for an European to go to America for making fortune; in
France, for example, there was a very rich society on the Riviera at the
beginning of the twentieth century, and a lot people succeeded in business here
for about three decades after World War 2 when economy was very good; secondly,
the background of the life of Scrooge was less important in the old italian
stories than it has been in the american stories (which have a more
biographical approach of Scrooge in general); the ducks in these european
stories were living in the present with less elements which refered to a past
where Scrooge should have left European countries for making fortune in America
(i didn't know until recently he was Scottish), and i think that is linked
to the fact that these italian stories used to have a more ludicrous approach of
the ducks stories than the american ones which were more in the style of
'adventures-at-the-end-of-the-world-for-finding-some-lost-treasures-; so i have
always been thinking in these european stories Scrooge could have been any
rich men who were around in Europe in the 20th
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