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- proper noun The parts of the American continent colonized or historically controlled by Anglo-Saxon people, principally the
USA andCanada . - proper noun The controlling elite and institutions of the United States and Canada.
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In Anglo-Saxon America, culture is usually with a capital C and it’s made official.
Strike Up the Band 2007
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This absolutely extreme case of the law of force, condemned by those who can tolerate almost every other form of arbitrary power, and which, of all others, presents features the most revolting to the feelings of all who look at it from an impartial position, was the law of civilized and Christian England within the memory of persons now living: and in one half of Anglo-Saxon America three or four years ago, not only did slavery exist, but the slave trade, and the breeding of slaves expressly for it, was a general practice between slave states.
The Subjection of Women John Stuart Mill 1839
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