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You inspired a related question: is it irrational that I feel proud of the two French people although I'm not French, I just live in France ? Plus, the Vietnamese mathematician has studied and worked in France.

I somehow feel proud that I made a good choice of place to live for now, if that makes any sense.

PS: I noticed they are almost all "outsiders", foreigners that immigrated to Western countries, or locals outside the traditional elite of the Western countries. The point, which is a depressing one, is that mathematics and, more generally, pure science, is an "outsider" activity nowadays.