It could be said the Anglo-Saxons pretty much "won the Game" as their culture has taken over the world. By contrast, the French haven't done so well considering the fact that they were the dominant European power for a long while. Why did History turn out that way?
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For a long time, the Germans were a very dominant culture - in Europe, at least, in the 19th century up till the first world war, in literature, music, philospophy. Look at the gigantic amount of German scientific scholars. England never 'won the game', it was the U.S which was, and only after the second world war, with the flooding of American consumer products, music and movies on European markets.
But if you look for example at what kind of lasting influence the French Revolution had on Nationalism and Republicanism in the world, why should they be considered losers? Or the influence of the Paris Communion on global communism?