• 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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          21 month 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).