As an American the whole concept of having noble families is such a weird idea to me. The closest comparison I could think of is our presidential families. Or maybe our corporate families. Like the Waltons, the Kochs, the Hearsts, and the Lauders. But at least these ones have power due to either having large amounts of money that they've accumulated over Generations or having large amounts of political power that they've accumulated over Generations. Meanwhile a Noble family just means that years ago they were Nobles.