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So you consider Scottish, Irish and Welsh people to be ethnic?
Don't they? Didn't Scotland just have a debate about whether they wanted to be considered British in addition to being Scottish? I don't think it was ever in question that the Scots consider themselves ethnically Scottish.
Don't they? Didn't Scotland just have a debate about whether they wanted to be considered British in addition to being Scottish? I don't think it was ever in question that the Scots consider themselves ethnically Scottish.
Generally Australians apply the much broader north american definition of the word.
Anglo
ˈanɡləʊ/
noun
1.
NORTH AMERICAN a white English-speaking person of British or northern European origin, in particular (in the US) as distinct from a Hispanic American or (in Canada) as distinct from a French-speaker.
So you consider Scottish, Irish and Welsh people to be ethnic?
Your misusing the word ethnic.
In the UK English, Welsh, Scottish, Ulster Scots, Irish and Cornish are all ethnic groups.
Anglo means English which comes from the Anglo-Saxon
There's a region in England called East Anglia for pete's sake. Who's Pete?
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Anglo is a Late Latin prefix used to denote English- in conjunction with another toponym or demonym. The word is derived from Anglia, the Latin name for England, and still the modern name of its eastern region. Anglia and England both mean land of the Angles, a Germanic people originating in the north German peninsula of Angeln
In Australia, some people ONLY call you "Australian" if you're of Anglo-Celtic descent.
So, if you're, say, half Italian and half English (or 10th generation Australian) they'd refer to you as "half Italian, half Aussie". Even the simpletons with mixed Anglo and non-Anglo heritage would say "I am half Aussie and half Greek"...
So someone with parent born in another country or with parents born in another country will be considered from this country and not Australian ? If it's the case, Australia is not really what I thougt
Generally Australians apply the much broader north american definition of the word.
Anglo
ˈanɡləʊ/
noun
1.
NORTH AMERICAN a white English-speaking person of British or northern European origin, in particular (in the US) as distinct from a Hispanic American or (in Canada) as distinct from a French-speaker.
That usage definition is very specifically how Latinos in the US use "Anglo" as a word. Nobody else in the US uses "Anglo" as a distinct word in American parlance.
Regarding the ethnic I was being sarcastic I thought that was obvious with the emoticon.
It was lost on me, sorry.
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