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Not really if you come from anywhere outside the Americas. Half of Europe and Asia still have kings/emperor's and a big chunk of countries exist under other nations royals like the British Commonwealth.
no, its still an extremely weird thing to see in the modern age regardless of how common it is
I'm Finnish, and as I noted in another comment here we're surrounded by constitutional monarchies and I don't find "well everyone does it" a very compelling argument for aristocracy