However, I am not using "Anglo" to refer to English or even British persons. I am using "Anglo" to refer to people of British descent, as in the phrase "Anglo-American" or the phrase "White Anglo-Saxon Protestant." I'm sorry if that was unclear.
I used the word "English" once, because I was talking about a comparison being made between the English and the Irish.
And I used "British" quite specifically, the one place that I did use it, to indicate that I was talking about British people (who yes, of course, were all or mostly upper-class men), not merely English people. And I used it in conjunction with "American" to indicate that I was, quite specifically, not claiming the British Isles as the sole locus of the problem.
Your point about class is perfectly accurate; however, this is not a post about class. It is a post about the word "race."
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However, I am not using "Anglo" to refer to English or even British persons. I am using "Anglo" to refer to people of British descent, as in the phrase "Anglo-American" or the phrase "White Anglo-Saxon Protestant." I'm sorry if that was unclear.
I used the word "English" once, because I was talking about a comparison being made between the English and the Irish.
And I used "British" quite specifically, the one place that I did use it, to indicate that I was talking about British people (who yes, of course, were all or mostly upper-class men), not merely English people. And I used it in conjunction with "American" to indicate that I was, quite specifically, not claiming the British Isles as the sole locus of the problem.
Your point about class is perfectly accurate; however, this is not a post about class. It is a post about the word "race."