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Should English speakers who are not Anglo-Saxon also read him? Or is he only relevant in to the communities that descent largely from English settlers and have
by squiggleblaz 9y ago
Should English speakers who are not Anglo-Saxon also read him? Or is he only relevant in to the communities that descent largely from English settlers and have never had to deal with the political consequences of influence from for instance Celtic or Asian or African communities?
- paganel 9y agoIn these parts of Europe from where I’m from “the Anglo-Saxon world” is used as a (apparently not so good) metaphor for the United States and Britain, because that’s where most of the “intellectual” books written in English are published (the big universities’ publishing houses in US + NYC, OxBridge+London+maybe Edinburgh). It probably sucks for some people who are from Cornwall or the Isle of Man, but in the end it’s just an expression.
- mc32 9y agoIt's a kind of metonymy; you don't take it literally. Like if someone says 'we don't want another Chernobyl' it does not mean literally they don't want a replica of a town in Ukraine. It means they don't want to have a situation where an nuclear disaster could happen.