"Birthright lottery"

It seems, some have argued I had a 20 % chance of being born in India.

My parents each had 2*23 chromosomes.

I also have 2*23 chromosomes.

For each gamete, the sperm and the ovum, the 23 chromosomes assembled in a chance that's 2^23, or 8 388 608. The combination of that is the square of this number, so : 70 368 744 177 664.

I had one chance in 70 368 744 177 664 to be born to my two parents. I had exactly zero chances in anything to be born to two Indian parents. If I had any chance of being born in India, it would have been the chance of mum and dad both being so fond of Bhagavadgita they had gone to India. I would still have been born to two Swedes.

I was in fact born in Vienna. Not far from Karl Lueger-Platz, 4 km with the roads bending. Because, each of them went to the Med school there.

Education is also part of my heritage. My dad neither stayed with that Med school nor with my mother. My mother stayed with the Med school each time she studied (up to ninth term, not sure if she completed a tenth in Sweden), and not with my dad.

I feel no regrets at the birthright lottery./HGL