Anglo-Celtic

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Anglo-Celtic is a notional racial or cultural category, used primarily in Australia to describe people of British and/or Irish descent. (For more information, see Anglo-Celtic Australian.) To a lesser degree the term is also used in New Zealand, Canada and the United States. It is considered to refer to the ethnic majority in Australia, where it applies to approximately 85% of the population.[1]

In this instance, "Anglo" is an abbreviation for Anglo-Saxon, a collective term for ancient Germanic peoples who settled in Britain (especially England) in the middle of the first millennium.

"Celtic", in this instance, is a convenience term for the peoples of Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall and the Isle of Man. The term does not include the Celtic peoples of continental Europe, such as the Bretons.

Australian usage of the term reflects the ethnocultural fusion of early Australian settler society. It is common for an Anglo-Celtic Australian to have an ancestor from two or more British or Irish cultures.

The term Anglo-Celtic is used by secessionists in the Southern United States, such as the League of the South, whose mission statement is "to protect the historic Anglo-Celtic core culture of the South because the Scots, Irish, Welsh, and English have given Dixie its unique institutions and civilization" [2]

  1. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2003, "Population characteristics: Ancestry of Australia's population" (from Australian Social Trends, 2003). Retrieved 01 September 2006.
  2. ^ The League of the South’s Position on Preserving Traditional Southern Culture from Texas League of the South. Retrieved 01 September 2006.

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