Gareth Barry Conlon
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Apparently in America (and then inevitably here) academics want an alternative name for the "Anglo Saxon" period because of its racial use in "white Anglo-Saxon protestant".
It may not be a bad idea as it masks our multi-racial history.
The terms 'Anglo' or 'Anglo-Saxon' are used a lot by racists in the US it is almost code for white people of western European heritage. Jess Sessions used the term Anglo-American in a speech that had a pretty clear subliminal message re race and he got a lot of grief for it. It does not have that same meaning here.