• oce 🐆
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      21 month ago

      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.

      • @FozzyOsbourne@lemm.ee
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        31 month ago

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

        • oce 🐆
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          11 month ago

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

          • @FozzyOsbourne@lemm.ee
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            230 days 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).