Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.usage.english Subject: Re: GNU Date: 16 Mar 2026 06:29:51 GMT Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <10oeeru$kih0$1@dont-email.me> <10oeiea$lo5g$2@dont-email.me> <6our7mxi9i.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10oh35t$1g6or$1@dont-email.me> <10oj5ii$259sl$2@dont-email.me> <10ojna8$2ashr$3@dont-email.me> <1772999514-12588@newsgrouper.org> <0nlrqkhnvbaefd3t4en5qclp0g9696ss0b@4ax.com> <10okn6p$2nl86$4@dont-email.me> <87jyvlsf25.fsf@parhasard.net> <10olp2o$3205d$2@dont-email.me> <10p7bo2$1fpqo$4@dont-email.me> <10p7pu6$1kjh7$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net ka3Ga8v08q2SzULYtYS4IQS8t92je4f42pX3X96itX51rKXwyP Cancel-Lock: sha1:mfpRJLsYvQcNFamzoDYEQphqf8I= sha256:SmMgNh5SbaVRRpFgTEdT9bvooyUUdua3qpkDrDP4wvQ= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:83076 alt.usage.english:1139623 On Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:29:22 +1100, Peter Moylan wrote: > You're talking about the USA, obviously, since that form of hypocrisy is > less common in other countries that were settled from England. (Look at > the gun ownsership statistics in those countries, for a start, or the > census results on religion.) But the USA has been settled from so many > different migration sources that any original Anglo-Saxon component must > be well diluted by now. Yes and no. If by Anglo-Saxon you mean former residents of the Britain, they lost their majority status by the early 19th century. https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/largest-ethnic-groups-and- nationalities-in-the-united-states.html However, the WASPs had control well beyond their numbers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Anglo-Saxon_Protestants Even the Puritans had a lasting influence on the mores. Personally, as a descendant of German Catholics, I would have let Britain sort out its own problems in WWI, not the faux neutrality of the WASP, Woodrow 'He Kept Us Out of War' Wilson, that vanished with the winter snow. I believe that would have avoided WWII.