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Why America, a country founded on rejecting aristocratic traditions, secretly loves them BY HELEN LEWIS The first thing you notice upon entering the College of Arms, in London, is a small and incongruously blue statue of a kiwi, clutching a gold axe in its right claw. Sorry, let me try that again: In the odd historic language of heraldry, this is “a kiwi Azure grasping in the dexter foot an ice axe bendwise Or.” The bird belongs to the coat of arms of Sir Edmund Hillary, a New Zealander, who was part of the first team to conquer Mount Everest. …
摘自《大西洋月刊》(The Atlantic)第338卷 第1期 · 2026年7月7日,Helen Lewis。仅引用开头一小段供了解文章,版权归原刊所有,全文请阅读原刊。