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The term "Anglo" is disrespectful of the ethnic diversity that exists among the caucasian race.
Then you get back to the fact that in the United States, Caucasians/Whites/Anglos (whatever term you want to use) are often not considered to be "ethinc" at all--nor to have a culture of any kind.
We're considered to be some sort of blank slate, I guess.....cannot win.
The term "Anglo" is disrespectful of the ethnic diversity that exists among the caucasian race.
Then you get back to the fact that in the United States, Caucasians/Whites/Anglos (whatever term you want to use) are often not considered to be "ethnic" at all--nor to have a culture of any kind.
We're considered to be some sort of blank slate, I guess.....cannot win.
I personally find this stupid. Every human being belongs to an ethnic group and a culture. I think it's very annoying when someone refers to non-whites as "ethnic" while thinking whites are somehow not. European Americans definitely have a culture. It's Western culture. Any European culture or European-derived culture is considered a Western culture.
I think the term European American is the best descriptor of white Americans of European descent. The term white lumps all Euro-Americans as if they were the same. The term Caucasian is inaccurate to a degree because the term refers to the native peoples from the Caucasus, not Europe directly. The term Anglo is inaccurate because the term refers to anything related to England or anything English. Even though the vast majority of Euro-Americans are monolingual in English, not all Euro-Americans are of English descent. I'm of Scandinavian and French descent; the term Anglo would not describe me correctly.
For example, you wouldn't call people of all the different Native American tribes a blanket term such as "Navajos"? Would you?
False analogy. I would not call an Iroquois a Navajo, because an Iroquois has a different cultural upbringing than a Navajo.
If you were to travel to Eastern Europe and refer to the people as "Anglos", they would laugh you out of town to say the least. The term "Anglo" is disrespectful of the ethnic diversity that exists among the caucasian race.[/quote]
Why would I call an Eastern European an Anglo? They don't speak English and their countries's institutions are not derived from the English model. There is nothing Anglo about them.
Kenneth Wojeczewski (a hypothetical Polish-American) from Chicago, I would call an Anglo. He doesn't speak much Polish, he read a lot of Shakespeare and other British authors in High School English class, he understands the relevance of the Magna Carta and Common Law to the American political system.
If our Kenneth spoke a bit of Polish and considered pierogies to be a comfort food and basically had a self image of being of Polish extraction, I would consider him a Polish-American and call him such. However, Until I knew of his background, I would would just call him an Anglo.
It doesn't even really bother me when they refer to whites as non-ethnic. It's just not true, but it is what it is.
It is true. "White" is not an ethnicity, it's a race. Swedes are white but I don't share much of a cultural heritage with them. Likewise Hispanos or East Coast Jews and Italian-Americans.
It is true. "White" is not an ethnicity, it's a race. Swedes are white but I don't share much of a cultural heritage with them. Likewise Hispanos or East Coast Jews and Italian-Americans.
You're correct in that "white" is not an ethnicity.
But we're still often all lumped together (regardless of ethnicity) and seen as having no ethnicity nor culture.
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