Editing Anglicisation (section)

=== Anglo-America ===
{{See also|Anglo-America|British America}}

==== Canada ====
{{See also|Canada–United Kingdom relations#Cultural relations}}
The term Anglicisation started being used around the time that the question of Anglicising white populations outside of the British Isles first presented itself in the late 18th century, when the [[British Empire]] had to decide how to conciliate French Canadians to its rule.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Sturgis |first=James |date=1982-10-01 |title=Anglicisation at the Cape of good hope in the early nineteenth century |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03086538208582629 |journal=The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History |language=EN |doi=10.1080/03086538208582629|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Anglicisation was also expected of immigrants, particularly at the time that the country envisioned itself as part of a global British imperial community, until the [[cultural mosaic]] model took root in the late 20th century.<ref>{{Cite web |title=“Anglo-Conformity”: Assimilation Policy in Canada, 1890s–1950s |url=https://search.worldcat.org/title/5714525681 |access-date=2024-12-24 |website=search.worldcat.org}}</ref>

==== Caribbean ====
{{See also|British West Indies}}

==== United States ====
{{See also|United Kingdom–United States relations#Culture and media}}
The United States was the first major British colony to become independent. Early into the [[American Revolution]], the majority of the colonists still felt loyal to Britain and preferred reconciliation over independence.<ref>{{Cite web |last=admin-afba |date=2023-07-04 |title=Independence Day (July 4): The evolution of American independence |url=https://www.afba.com/articles/independence-day-july-4-the-evolution-of-american-independence/ |access-date=2024-12-29 |website=AFBA |language=en-US}}</ref> Close cultural relations eased the resumption of post-Revolution ties between the two nations and later aided their cooperation during [[World War II]], giving rise to what became known as the [[Special Relationship]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Henkhaus |first=Luke |title=How The US Became Independent (And Inseparable) From Great Britain |url=https://artsci.tamu.edu/news/2022/07/how-the-us-became-independent-and-inseparable-from-great-britain.html |access-date=2025-01-08 |website=artsci.tamu.edu |language=en}}</ref> Both nations' cultural legacies and rising global stature led them to consider themselves as successors in certain ways [[Succession of the Roman Empire|to the Roman Empire]],<ref>{{Citation |last=Malamud |first=Margaret |title=10 Translatio Imperii: America as the New Rome c.1900 |date=2010-10-07 |work=Classics and Imperialism in the British Empire |pages=0 |editor-last=Bradley |editor-first=Mark |url=https://academic.oup.com/book/6414/chapter-abstract/150221978?redirectedFrom=fulltext |access-date=2025-01-08 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-958472-7}}</ref> and [[American hegemony]] was able to peacefully succeed the British Empire's [[Pax Britannica|dominance]] in part due to the widely shared heritage.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Schake |first=Kori |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv24w62xt |title=Safe Passage: The Transition from British to American Hegemony |date=2017 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-97507-1}}</ref>

During the 19th and 20th centuries, there was a nationwide effort in the [[United States]] to anglicize all [[Immigration to the United States|immigrants to the US]]. This was carried out through methods including (but not limited to) mandating the teaching of [[American English]] and having all immigrants change their first and last names to English-sounding names. This movement was known as [[Americanization (immigration)|Americanization]] and is considered a subset of Anglicization due to English being the dominant language in the United States.