Pamela Anderson Becomes a US Citizen (But a Member of the Superclass She’s Not)

It’s true. She was born a Canadian (and presumably remains one, joining the legions of dual citizens). Said Anderson of the development: “Being a citizen excites me not just because I can vote, but because I can crack the whip on Capitol Hill to defend animals.” But surely that’s a whip that could have been receptively cracked as a noncitizen, too. I doubt many congressmen were asking to see her passport at the office threshold. (Baywatch, by the way, is according to the Guinness Book of World Records the most watched TV show of all time, with 1.1 billion viewers worldwide.)



That said, Anderson clearly doesn’t belong to the group of 6000 individuals who run big international organizations and “can have much more power over key aspects of your daily life and over global trends than most officials in Washington are likely to have, except in the most extreme circumstances.” See this WaPo distillation by David Rothkopf of his new book Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making, which looks like an interesting, best-seller take on the migration of power in the face of globalization. These folks don’t need US citizenship, either, and yet many are cracking less appealing whips here and elsewhere.