It's difficult, I guess, since it's the only culture in which I've been organically immersed.
US culture is, I'm sure, different in many respects from what I've seen on Friends, for example.
I don't know that tall poppy syndrome is so much about the success of peers.
If you move up in the world but remember where you came from, then nobody has much of a problem with it; but if you start peering down your nose at others ten minutes after you've had a sniff of a win, you're going to lose friends, fast.
Brash, unashamed self promotion rubs us up the wrong way.