Kenneth Coble wrote:
>
> Jenn Ridley wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> >>> That's life at high altitude Charlie. Doesn't bother anyone that
> >>> I've noticed.
> >>
> >> Didn't notice me eh? ;-)
> >
> > Do you live there? then it doesn't really matter.
> >
> > FWIW, *I* knew what Anglo means in that context, and I don't even live
> > there.
> >
> > jenn
>
> Well, for what it's worth, I had some friends of various Carribean/Central
> American backgrounds while I was in school in Miami who called all
> non-black, non-Carribean/Central American, non-Asian people "Anglos." I
> took to referring to them all as "Mexican" and they got the point and at
> least stopped calling _me_ an Anglo. Of course, they'd still call my 2nd
> generation Irish-American roomate an Anglo, which ****ed him off much more
> than it had ever bothered me, and tended to prompt long speeches about the
> Sassenach history of oppressing his people, etc...
>
> Just my $0.02,
>
> Ken "German/French/Scotch Irish-American" Coble
>


Some people make a fuss about anything, don't they. I don't get offended
when people in the US call me American in a generic context. (hint: I'm
not American)