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Anglo-Saxonism |
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An´glo-Sax´on`ism
Anglo-Saxonism a belief in the innate superiority of the “Anglo-Saxon race.” See also: Nationalismanything characteristic of the Anglo-Saxon race, especially any linguistic peculiarity that sterns from Old English and has not been affected by another language. See also: Language |
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49-50; Audrey Smedley, Race in North America: Origins and Evolution
of a Worldview (Boulder, CO, 1993); Reginald Horsman, Race and Manifest
Destiny: The Origins of American Racial Anglo-Saxonism (Cambridge, MA,
1981); Rodney Davenport and Christopher Saunders, South Africa: A Modern
History (New York, 2000), p. In doing so, he rejected the facile
expansionist Anglo-Saxonism of his youth, a policy based on vague
values, in favor of a political realism that focused on tangible
national interests.
[14] Unlike most white American travelers to Rome, Douglass paid heed to
racial mixture, and extolled not the triumph of Anglo-Saxonism but the
miscegenated origins of Western civilization. |
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