Is 'Anglo-Saxon' being used as a term of racist abuse?

Isaac Sibson said:
Would people please stick to reasonable contribution to debate...
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I recall doing Anglo-Saxon in my first year at University. It was very dull stuff, but not quite as bad as Chaucer who was a guaranteed aid against insomnia.

Actually, what's to debate? 'Anglo-Saxon' isn't a race, so the term 'Anglo-Saxon' cannot be racist.
 
domfjbrown said:
Let's face it - they didn't raise a finger when the Germans invaded. I'm amazed the French Resistance movement ever happened.
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Dom, ol' spud, where do you get this hogwash from? They lifted plenty of fingers, problem was, they were the wrong fingers. They tried to fight the previous war and weren't prepared for the Blitzkreig onslaught with which they were hit. Neither, I might add, was the British Expeditionary Force. And, be honest; in the same circumstances, would you have been a fearless resistance fighter, knowing that if you were caught, you'd probably end your days screaming your head off in a Gestapo cellar? That takes a special kind of courage, and not a lot of people have it. It's one explanation why so many Maquisards were Communists - they had nothing to lose.

Please think more carefully before you write.
 
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I would have thought Anglo-Saxon was a compliment, seeing what the normans are responsible for - serfdom, class atitudes, garbage diet for the masses.

The Vikings were a mixed blessing. Being from the NE, I would have been a lot shorter and weedier if it wasnt for some unwelcome scandinavians

Lets just hope the French and German balance of trade go the same way as ours [ie 3rd worst in the EEC]
 
tones said:
And, be honest; in the same circumstances, would you have been a fearless resistance fighter, knowing that if you were caught, you'd probably end your days screaming your head off in a Gestapo cellar?
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It'd not make a jot of difference - I'd have been gassed as a cripple either way.
 
The grandfather of Wille the Conq lived in Trondheim, Norway, but its interesting that one major impact of his arrival was the overlay of French.
 
analoguekid said:
bloody whinging french, how quick they forget.
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1. No, AK, nobody has forgotten nothing
2. And do you believe that because something happened 60 years ago (or more for that matter) people should stop having feelings and an opinion on world matters, economic in particular ?
3. If you come to France you'll find that some of us are immensely grateful and have a lot of admiration for the "brits"

Cheers
 
Dev said:
but terms such as Krouts and Frogs are offensive, so please show due respect to our German/French etc. members
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Thanks Dev for flying to our defense. I for one don't take Frog as offensive. Actually Froggy was my nickname when I was living in the UK ;)
 
domfjbrown said:
Let's face it - they didn't raise a finger when the Germans invaded. I'm amazed the French Resistance movement ever happened.
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Go back to your history books or read Tones entry on the subject
 
midlifecrisis said:
I work a lot with the French. They use Anglo Saxon more to refer to a culture and approach to life than strictly to a race - it's basically 'the American and British way'. In the business world, typical A-S attributes in their view are ruthlessness, aggressive/dictatorial rather than consensual management style, over-planning, hasty decision making etc. We would in turn see them as chaotic, unstructured with no transparency around decision making.

They are paranoid about having their culture swamped into an Anglo-Saxon (really American) global mono-culture. Fair play in some respects, though institutions like the Academie Francaise, which tries to stop people using English words by litigating against them are distinctly Canute-like.

'Cheese eating surrender monkeys'? Debate...
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So true, glad to see someone with a reasonable outlook. cheers
 
johnhunt said:
those trees kill a few thousand motorists a year.
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No they don't, speed does. Some, especially among the young, still are reckless drivers.

These trees were initially planted to protect slow going horse carts from the sun. They were part of the charm of our countryside. Now they are chopping them off like crazy, very sad indeed.
 
No offence meant sir galahad, certainly no offence intended at any individual, (notice I never used "Kraut" or Frog" or "Jock" for that matter :) )consider we get a biased view of the facts from the british media (as do all nations i suppose) and from our point of view The French seem less interested in world econonmic matters, and more with making sure they get their own way. That may be a tiwisted view, but it's the one we seem to get, sorry.
 
I wish the brit populace were more like the French when it comes to civil rights.
 
domfjbrown said:
It'd not make a jot of difference - I'd have been gassed as a cripple either way.
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A not very skilful evasion of the question. And incorrect (again). There was no gassing of the many mutilés de guerre in France and Germany left from the First War. What you're thinking of is the euthanasia programme used against mental patients, but which was eventually stopped because of the resistance against it in Germany (yes, the Nazis knew they were on a loser and stopped). As I say, you should really get your facts straight.
 

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