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Why are westerners obsessed with ranking everything?

By Claire Leigh

The west seems to be obsessed with ranking things. Whether it’s Mark Owen’s top 20 hits, the Forbes rich list or the 100 greatest Britons, success is apparently relative rather than absolute.

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