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 :You're right, a large part of the US population are descended from Northern Europeans. What I objected to is the lazy use of the rem Anglo-Saxon- the Angles and the Saxons were two tribes from Northern Germany who arrived in Britain in around the 5th Century AD and soon became known as the English. The term is often used to describe wither the English, the British or English speakers.  This term doesn't describe the Irish, who describe themselves as Celts, culturally distinct from the British. The term certainly doesn't include the Scandanavia, France or even Germany. Less than 20% of Americans trace their ancestry back to British settlers, so talking about ""Anglo-Saxon mindsets"" as if the US and the UK were part of some unified culture is a bit silly. The US could just have easily been Dutch, German or French speaking if history had gone slightly differently.  
    
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