Who uses the term "Anglo-Saxon" to describe someone? Just saw on MSNBC the shooter at the Baseball

[Pachamama]

...field where members of congress were shot described as being "Anglo-Saxon"....then silly Stephanie Ruhle of MSNBC repeats the description.....My teen daughter who is 17 looked at me puzzled and asked the same in addition to starting to describe who the Anglos Saxons were and she thought that was bizarre too and we have never seen a form or questionnaire that asks or gives that as an option...

It was Rep. joe Barton of Texas who said that....does he identify himself and his 10 year old son standing next to him as Anglo Saxon?

It was strange and then to hear the word repeated gave it an even stranger reference to hear...can't say I remember ever hearing that...

[Adrahil]

1. The term explicitly implies British descent...

Though I have heard the term applied to Americans who appear to be of Western Europen descent in general.

Really, it's a euphamism for "super white."

[Pachamama]

8. My daughter said "Maybe he is actually Norse-Gael"?

She loves history and accuracy...

But yes, it was clearly referring to "white".... And we both felt that but had not heard it used previously....

[Adrahil]

9. Your daughter is awesome! NT

[Pachamama]

15. I think so too...

[annabanana]

21. lololol . .n/t

[MedusaX]

2. WASP White Anglo Saxon Protestant... term used frequently in the Reagan Era as I recall

[Lithos]

3. Think WASP

White Anglo Saxon Protestant

Have not thought of that in about 20 years, but yeah it used to be very common

[Pachamama]

11. I grew up in Germany & came to US as a teenager...

Never heard anyone in Europe use that term, but I do recall hearing a few times in my life decades ago the term "WASPY" being used. Honestly didn't know what it meant....

I grew up in Bavaria....we just knew there was Bavaria and everyone else...
(Germans or people who have spent time in Germany will understand the Bavarian view that they are the true Germans)

[Lithos]

14. It's an English colonial term

Used by the missionaries who set about demonstrating the superiority of English culture.

You can think of it was 1930's and 1940's Hollywood stereotype where WASPs carried the world's civilization.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Anglo-Saxon_Protestant

[nolabear]

4. He was being careful. Cut him some slack. He'd just been shot at.

[Pachamama]

13. Not being critical of a person having been shot at - in fact, when a person is speaking like he was,

...they are speaking from the heart and I just found it a term and description I can't recall and when Stephanie Ruhle repeated it, it was something both my daughter and I looked at each other and said "what?"

[nolabear]

20. Gotcha. It was a strange phrase to hear. I saw it and could almost hear him thinking.

I was waiting for "Caucasian" as he hesitated, clearly not sure what to say but needing to say he was;t Muslim or black.

Pax. I just want to love on people today.

[FakeNoose]

5. I think it's an old-fashioned term for "Caucasian"

Anglo-Saxon means the person is white and speaks English, or is of English heritage.

Caucasian means the person is white and has European heritage, but not necessarily English-speaking.

So the term Anglo-Saxon is no longer used, and I haven't heard it in quite a while.

[leftstreet]

6. As opposed to a Celt?

Media people are bizarre

[exboyfil]

7. As opposed to Gaelic

or Welsh or Picts or Normans.

Not to mention Gauls, Iberians....

[SweetieD]

10. People say this as a synonym for white. Really there would be few to zero pure

Anglo saxons left anyway. Most people in Britain are a mix of various Celtic and germanic groups.


Anyway it is a silly term to continue to use in the US because it accurately describes no one here.

[Igel]

12. Yup. Strange.

Sounds like they're not happy to use "anglo", a common moniker where I live for non-Latino white Americans of any background, and are hypercorrecting. Unless, of course, he turns out to be British and from one of the sussexes or Anglia.

"Anglo" is just Spanish (Mexican, in this case) "anglosajon" truncated and then borrowed into English.

I'm "anglo" in no way, but am non-Latino white American. Irish, mostly, and something I find really offensive. (Mostly when I say that I find the person using the word feels a great entitlement to being offended at my offendedness. Meh.)

[meow2u3]

16. "Anglo" is the Texas term for a non-Hispanic white

I used to live in Texas. Rep. Barton, who's from Texas, said that when he described the shooter.

[UTUSN]

25. Bingo, it's a borderline racist term down there, "Anglo" v. "Mexican". BARTON is a raging TeaBagger.

[Nanjeanne]

17. They can't bring themselves to admit the shooter was white so they are searching for

terms that dance. Almost funny to watch the gymnastics.

[Motley13]

18. Stupid description

he was white, he could have been Icelandic for all we know

[ProfessorGAC]

19. Maybe He Thought The Baseball Players Were Normans

Except for the armor and the swords of stuff, and easy mistake to make.

[BumRushDaShow]

22. "Who uses the term "Anglo-Saxon" to describe someone?"

Rmoney's "advisors" -

[Iggo]

23. "White."

[Kaleva]

24. That term was quite commonly used when I was younger as was WASP.

[malaise]

26. I asked the same thing

but these are flat out racists

[DBoon]

27. Someone studying Britain in the 6th century

Who reads Bede in the original