ANGLO-SAXON AMERICA
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 "Hispanic", or "Germanic" versus "Latin".
Anglo-Saxon America or Anglo-America are the
countries of the American continent where the official language is English.
The countries and dependencies it comprises are: Canada, British Virgin
Islands, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda,
Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis,
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and
Caicos Islands, British Virgin Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, United States
Virgin Islands.
Canada, so currently Spanish is a language of great presence in large areas of the United States while Canada has two official languages: English and French.
On the other hand, there
are several territories and nations of America that were also British colonies,
such as Belize in Central America; Guyana, the
Falkland Islands in South America; Barbados, Jamaica and other
Caribbean countries, which are normally excluded from the term when drawing
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