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Originally Posted by pj3000
Yet, white Americans of Mexican and Cuban and Argentine and Colombian ancestry all stay Hispanic somehow, even after multiple generations.
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They don't.
https://www.npr.org/2017/12/20/57199...en-study-finds
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Originally Posted by Docere
In Montreal, "anglo" often means Jewish or Italian or Greek.
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Originally Posted by Sun Belt
That's interesting considering the term, 'Anglo' originates back to Angeln, Germany.
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In Montreal's social milieu, "Anglo" is shorthand for Anglophone, or native English speaker and person who consumes English-language media and culture,
not Anglo-Saxon ancestry or anything of the sort.
Anglophone, English-oriented, contrasts with Francophone, or French-oriented -- it's all linguistic and cultural, nothing about blood or race.
A black Canadian who only spoke English and not French would be considered an Anglo, in Montreal.
Montrealers also for the most part don't consider French-Canadian or Francophones to be defined by ancestry or blood (at least not in contemporary times, maybe back in the day).
Someone can be blond and blue-eyed and of "old stock" French-Canadian ancestors, but if they don't speak one lick of French, many Montrealers will consider the Haitian immigrant who
does speak French to be more "French-Canadian" or Francophone than them.