Editing Anglo (section)

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'''Anglo''' is a prefix indicating a relation to, or descent from [[England]], [[English culture]], the [[English people]] or the [[English language]], such as in the term ''[[Anglosphere]]''.  It is often used alone, somewhat loosely, to refer to people of [[British people|British]] descent in [[Anglo-America]], the [[Anglo-Caribbean|Anglophone Caribbean]], [[South Africa]], [[Australia]], and [[New Zealand]]. It is used in [[Canada]] to differentiate between [[Francophone Canadians]], located mainly in [[Quebec]] but found across Canada, and [[English Canadians|Anglophone Canadians]], also located across Canada, including in Quebec. It is also used in the [[United States]] to distinguish the [[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic and Latino]] population from the [[Non-Hispanic whites|non-Hispanic white]] majority.

Anglo is a [[Late Latin]] [[Prefix (linguistics)|prefix]] used to denote ''English-'' in conjunction with another [[toponym]] or [[demonym]].  The word is [[Etymology|derived]] from Anglia, the Latin name for England and still used in the modern name for its eastern region, [[East Anglia]]. It most likely refers to the [[Angles (tribe)|Angles]], a [[Germanic peoples|Germanic]] people originating in the north [[Germany|German]] [[peninsula]] of [[Angeln]], that is, the region of today's Lower Saxony that joins the [[Jutland]] Peninsula. The first recorded use of the word in Latin is in Tactitus's Germania, where he mentions the "Angles" as a [[Suebi|Suebian]] tribe living near the Elbe. [[Bede]] writes that the Angles came from a place called Angulus "which lies between the province of the [[Jutes]] and the [[Saxons]]." Anglia and England both mean ''land of the [[English people|English]]''. 

Anglo is often used to refer to ''British'' in historical and other contexts after the [[Acts of Union 1707]], for example the [[Anglo-Irish Agreement]] of 1985 between the [[United Kingdom]] and the [[Republic of Ireland]], which established the Anglo-Irish Intergovernmental Conference, a forum made up of officials from the British and Irish governments, and the [[Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824]] between the British government and the Dutch, not an English government. Typical examples of this use are also shown below, where non-English people from the British Isles are described as being ''Anglo''.

''Anglo'' is not an easily defined term.  For traditionalists, there are [[natural language|linguistic]] problems with using the word as an adjective or noun on its own.  For example, the purpose of the ''-o'' ending is to enable the formation of a compound term (for example ''Anglo-Saxon'' meaning of English and [[Saxons|Saxon]] origin), so there is only an apparent parallelism between, for example, [[Latino (demonym)|Latino]] and Anglo.  However, a [[semantic change]] has taken place in many English-speaking regions so that in informal usage the meanings listed below are common. The definition is changed in each region which defines how it is identified.