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ANGLO-SAXON AMERICA

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Anglo-Saxon America, Anglo-America or English America (Anglo-America in English) is the term commonly used to designate Canada and the United States (both former British colonies) as well as countries where the official or majority language is English, and which is used in opposition to Latin America. The term is not entirely accurate because large territories that integrate it such as California, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, Florida, Louisiana and part of Canada were French or Spanish colonies, and are not, therefore, of Anglo-Saxon origin. In fact, in Quebec French is the only official language, in addition to that spoken by the majority of the population, and in other regions there are Latin languages in co-official status with English. In addition, the term "Latin" refers to all Romance languages, while "Anglo-Saxon" only refers to the English language, so for parallelism one should speak of "Anglo-Saxon" versus "H