Quote: (09-05-2014 06:44 AM)RexImperator Wrote:
This is a half-joking question...but why aren't Denmark and Northern Germany in the "Anglosphere"? After all, that's where the Angles came from...
BEcause the term "anglo" has nothing to do with the original anglo-saxons but It is about being native english speaker. And from a cultural stand point language isnt enough but also you need to be culturaly a British Isles off-shot.
If you knew a bit of history you would know anglo-saxons rarely were a dominant group in the british Isles, they were only minority groups, same for other newcomers such as the vikings, romans, etc. The british Isles has been populated by the same group since a long time ago (The ancient britons who were a ice age hunter gatherers ) who were not related in the least with modern germanics or celts. Thet were related to the populations of the atlantic seaboard back then . Calling the english/british anglo-saxons is as wise as calling the Bolivian people spanish, both have nothing to do with those peoples besides language. You can say it also by the looks of the people that the british arent of germanic origin, most have subpar statures and there are few blondes compared to the countries where real germanics and central-european celts populated. I can easily tell apart groups of British/aussie and most white americans, compared to sandinavians, dutch and german people, because the earlier are darker features in average and dont look like germanic people at all.