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In reply to the discussion: Pic Of The Moment: An American Dog Whistle In London [View all]Moonwalk
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The word was created thanks to all the invasions England and it's "Anglo" population (the Angles themselves having been invaders who stomped all over the native Britons) suffered from the Scandinavians (Saxons) in the centuries prior to when they got invaded by Normans. So. technically, all the Dutch Presidents were equal to "Anglo-Saxon" as they're descended from the same invaders that created the "saxon" in Anglo-Saxon--and all the Irish Presidents were, more or less, equally Anglo-Saxon as they, too, were invaded by Saxons and, later by Anglo-Saxon-Norman British.
Of course, following this logic, tracing back and back to who invaded whom from where to where we eventually end up back in the only continent of origin that counts for human beings: Africa