Talk:Anglo

Objections

I deleted a sentence saying that "Anglo" for any white non-Hispanic is as erroneous as "Mexican" for any Hispanic. "Anglo" is to England roughly as "Hispanic" is to Spain, and thus "Anglo" can cover an American with no English ancestry (like me), just as "Hispanic" can cover a Guatemalan with no Spanish ancestry. The right analogy (but irrelevant to this article) would be that calling a Jewish American "English" would be like calling a Guatemalan "Mexican". However, I added a sentence (NPOV, I hope) about considering the term erroneous. JerryFriedman 23:01, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

What do you mean by "Jewish American", do they have real Israeli ancestry or going by their religion. Dudtz 1/13/06 9:56 PM EST

Same with Polish, Swedish, and other non-English white Americans.--204.108.237.194 22:18, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

I have ancestry from a Spanish speaking country, but I will always consider myself Anglo, English is my first language, and my ONLY language. I am not Hispanic not matter what the census says

I removed the "citation needed" tag for the assertion that most non-hisp., white americans do not identify as anglo. To mind the opposite assertion would require a cite, not this one.71.106.109.86 21:33, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

Link added to ‘Anglo-Celtic’ article

Hello, in the introduction and in the ‘See also’ section here I have just added a reference/link to Wikipedia’s relevant ‘Anglo-Celtic’ article. I also put the sections under 'Specialized Usage' into alphabetical order. Kind regards, Pconlon 11:15, 27 June 2007 (GMT)

Addition & Clarification

I added the following to the section on Ireland (with reference): "...a historical term applied to the Anglo-Normans (Anglo-French) who arrived in Ireland in 1169 CE or after. Their leader, Strongbow, was crowned King Richard of Leinster in 1171 CE, becoming the first non-native to be King of an Irish province." Kind regards, Pconlon 11:28, 27 June 2007 (GMT)

Anglo as an offensive term

I think it should be noted that the 'Anglo' prefix can be considered offensive to some, terms like Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Irish and indeed Anglo by itself are all potential offensive and i think the article should reflect that. Gazh 09:38, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Where are your references for this - you can't simply add things or delete them because of someones POV Dionysus99 11:08, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Evidence? Centuries of the Anglo-Irish masterrace are sufficient. Have a read of this little gem or this or this, for starters. Needless, to say, brutalisation by the WASPs of an entire people for centuries would not make 'Anglo' offensive. Nope. The natives would come out with a glowing love for their supposedly racially superior Tutonic Anglo superiors. 86.42.82.239 (talk) 23:51, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Skip

I live in Australia and have never heard the term 'Skip' being used to refer to anything, let-alone a person of anglo descent. I say this needs a reference to back it up, or it should be deleted as mere hear-say.139.230.245.20 03:55, 25 October 2007 (UTC)