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Originally Posted by Acajack
It's a fascinating story but I am not sure I'd consider American Jews in Israel to be homegrown anglophones.
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What are some examples of other groups considered to be homegrown anglophones, apart from Anglo-Quebecois?
Anglo-settler colonies where English dominated early on clearly experienced no challenge from any other language (eg. stereotypically Anglo-Canadians, Americans, Australians not of recent immigrant origin are famously reluctant to think second languages are important). British-ruled South Africa vaguely could resemble the situation with Canada, if you take Afrikaners to be analogous to French Canadians.
In many cases, more recent Anglophones living abroad are not homegrown, but expats (eg. Brits in Spain, Americans in Thailand) with no interest in assimilating to the local culture, so that doesn't count.
There's also descendants of English-speaking immigrants who assimilate to the language of the land where they arrive, like the American Jews in Israel I was mentioning or perhaps British-descent Latin Americans, such as the famous Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, who was of partial English descent and whose father grew up speaking English at home.
I don't know though if any of these cases are similar enough to the Montreal situation.