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The adjective Anglo-American is used in the following ways: to denote the cultural sphere shared by the United Kingdom, the United States and English Canada.For example, "Anglo-American culture is different from French culture."
Anglo-America most often refers to a region in the Americas in which English is the main language and British culture and the British Empire have had significant historical, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural impact. [2] This includes the United States, most of Canada, and some Caribbean countries.
English Americans (historically known as Anglo-Americans) are Americans whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in England.In the 2020 United States census, English Americans were the largest group in the United States with 46.6 million Americans self-identifying as having some English origins (many combined with another heritage) representing (19.8%) of the White American population.
The Anglosphere is the Anglo-American sphere of influence. [ a ] The term was first coined by the science fiction writer Neal Stephenson in his book The Diamond Age , published in 1995. John Lloyd adopted the term in 2000 and defined it as including English-speaking countries like the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, New ...
In the United States, White Anglo-Saxon Protestants or Wealthy Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASP) is a sociological term which is often used to describe white Protestant Americans of British descent (sometimes more broadly of Northwestern European descent), who are generally part of the white dominant culture or upper-class and historically often ...
Many American folk songs use the same music, but with new lyrics, often as parodies of the original material. [citation needed] Anglo-American songs can also be distinguished from British songs by having fewer pentatonic tunes, less prominent accompaniment (but with heavier use of drones) and more melodies in major.
Anglo-Saxonism is a cultural belief system developed by British and American intellectuals, politicians, and academics in the 19th century. Racialized Anglo-Saxonism contained both competing and intersecting doctrines, such as Victorian era Old Northernism and the Teutonic germ theory which it relied upon in appropriating Germanic (particularly Norse) cultural and racial origins for the Anglo ...
Anglo-American can refer to: the Anglosphere (the Anglo-American world) Anglo-American, something of, from, or related to Anglo-America the Anglo-Americans demographic group in Anglo-America; Anglo American plc, a mining company; Anglo-American Publishing, Canadian comic book publisher during the World War II era