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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Anglo-Saxon cultural elements

You did your best to stamp those out back in 1066

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's still how we call this group from France.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Do you use it differently to "English"?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maybe it is interchangeable sometimes, but English people would rather point at the UK, while Anglo-Saxons often abusively refers to UK plus majorly white former British colonies, USA, Canada, Australia and New-Zealand.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Interesting. I'd probably call that "the anglosphere", Anglo-Saxon is specifically the pre-Norman-conquest residents of what is now England.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Wouldn't the Anglosphere include every English speaking countries like South Africa, India and others?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

Maybe. There's also "The Commonwealth" which includes them but which the USA explicitly opted out from (by gaining independence from the British Empire before it was cool).