Since a very high percentage of Australians claim at least some Irish or
Scots descent, we got very annoyed over the term Anglo-Australians being
used to differentiate the British Isles descended from the rest of us.  So
now we're fighting over Anglo-Celtic Australians (for the mix-and-match).
Everyone else just uses country of origin plus.  Mind you, apart from the
originals and the very recent arrivals, we're a pretty tangled mix these
days.

Heleanor Feltham
(Scots, Irish, English, Portuguese, and a few others)
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>From: daemon
>To: Multiple recipients of list MUSEUM-L
>Subject: Re: EURO Americans
>Date: Tuesday, 3 September 1996 10:30PM
>
>I wouldn't touch this one with a shit stick.
>
>Shit, of course (according to my copy of the OED) is OE, OFr, Oteut., and
>if you don't recognize those abreviations, don't bother to respond.
>
>And thanks; I needed a laugh today.
>
>Jack C. Thompson
>Scottish-anglo derived; up the English.....
>
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>
>
>On Tue, 3 Sep 1996 [log in to unmask] wrote:
>
>> "ANGLO-American" would refer only to people who are descendents of the
>> Angles, in other words the English.  "EURO-American" includes everyone
>from
>> any place in Europe.  As most American descendents of Europeans are mutts
>> with grandparents from every which way, this term is much more accurate.
>>
>> As to common useage, I think one's familiarity with the term might depend
>> upon one's subject of specialization.  In some fields it is very common.
>I
>> just used the term frequently in my thesis.
>>
>> Beth Hansen
>> John F Kennedy University ALUMA!!!
>>