They also habitually call the British "Anglo-Saxons" nowadays. They used to simply call them (all of British nations) "English" and the entire UK "England", but now it's "Anglo-Saxon countries". I'm not sure is this supposed to be an insult or what, it's so weird.
Your knowledge of British history and present is as good as if you were an average Russian official. There have been no Anglo-Saxon countries since 1066.
Almost 1,000 years ago already, the Anglo-Saxons have been destroyed (culturally and physically) and replaced as the ruling class by the French Vikings the Normans as well as the Bretons (Welshified French). In effect, the descendants of Anglo-Saxons are a minority even in England, not to mention Wales or Scotland, and in particular only 3 (three) AS aristocratic families survived the Norman Conquest and its genocide-style aftermath without being killed (on the male side, the Normans/Bretons would often marry the women after killing the men) or exiled: Berkeley, Swinton and Arden (perhaps Wentworth too). On the commoner side, most people in England always were and still are (by DNA) just the indigenous (Celtic) Britons, similar as in the rest of the UK (with obviously Northern Ireland as well as Scotland too being also highly Irish sort of insular Celtic, Scotland because of the Scoti invasion and colonization that ended the Picts, then become Germanized in turn by the other Vikings). Which is why we call them British, all of the countries of Great Britain (Northern Ireland too).
Only "Saxons countries" are in Germany today, but there's nothing "Anglo" about them. It's funny because the memetic Dresden is in Saxony, Germany.
True, but for some reason, English became associated with Anglo-Saxon. It's to the point that some people refer to white Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPs). I've seen it used in histories of the late 19th century in America, differentiating to those with deeper American roots to recent European immigrants.
They also habitually call the British "Anglo-Saxons" nowadays. They used to simply call them (all of British nations) "English" and the entire UK "England", but now it's "Anglo-Saxon countries". I'm not sure is this supposed to be an insult or what, it's so weird.
Your knowledge of British history and present is as good as if you were an average Russian official. There have been no Anglo-Saxon countries since 1066.
Almost 1,000 years ago already, the Anglo-Saxons have been destroyed (culturally and physically) and replaced as the ruling class by the French Vikings the Normans as well as the Bretons (Welshified French). In effect, the descendants of Anglo-Saxons are a minority even in England, not to mention Wales or Scotland, and in particular only 3 (three) AS aristocratic families survived the Norman Conquest and its genocide-style aftermath without being killed (on the male side, the Normans/Bretons would often marry the women after killing the men) or exiled: Berkeley, Swinton and Arden (perhaps Wentworth too). On the commoner side, most people in England always were and still are (by DNA) just the indigenous (Celtic) Britons, similar as in the rest of the UK (with obviously Northern Ireland as well as Scotland too being also highly Irish sort of insular Celtic, Scotland because of the Scoti invasion and colonization that ended the Picts, then become Germanized in turn by the other Vikings). Which is why we call them British, all of the countries of Great Britain (Northern Ireland too).
Only "Saxons countries" are in Germany today, but there's nothing "Anglo" about them. It's funny because the memetic Dresden is in Saxony, Germany.
True, but for some reason, English became associated with Anglo-Saxon. It's to the point that some people refer to white Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPs). I've seen it used in histories of the late 19th century in America, differentiating to those with deeper American roots to recent European immigrants.