| 词组 | Anglo |
| 释义 | Anglo Anglo is an ethnic term of relatively recent vintage used to distinguish those of English ethnic or English-speaking background from others. The Dictionary of Canadianisms dates Canadian use from 1800; U.S. use is much more recent, dating from the mid-19308. There are at present two chief uses. The first is Canadian; it distinguishes the Canadian of English ethnic and language background from one whose background is French. • ... the language we Anglos have all been speaking unwittingly—Canajan —Val Clery, Books in Canada, July-September 1973 • We all know Quebec isn't entirely French.... there are still nearly a million Anglos in the province — Sonia Day, letter to the editor, Word Watching, June 1983 The second arose in the southwestern U.S. and originally distinguished the American of English-speaking background from one of Spanish-speaking background. • But as far as the newcomer can see, the ordinary Anglo is little more civilized, less blatant, or less confident of his own noisy progress because of his contact with the two more gracious cultures —Dudley Wynn, New Mexico Quarterly, February 1935 • The Spanish-speaking also are still about. They dress for the most part like Anglos now —Conrad Richter, Holiday, December 1953 But Anglo has been extended to other kinds of distinctions. In the 1980s these have not yet sorted themselves out into uses that are both discrete and fixed enough to be recognized as separate meanings. Here is a sample: • Unless you happen to be Spanish, Mexican, or Indian, when you go to Santa Fe you are casually classed as an "Anglo," even if you are Greek, Chinese, or British —Edith Moore Jarrett & Beryl J. M. McManus, El Camino Real, 3d ed., 1960 • ... a rate of depression midway between that of Jewish women with European-born mothers on the one hand and Anglo women on the other —Pauline Bart, Trans-Action, November-December 1970 • In Miami, if you are not Cuban and not black, you are, by local definition, an Anglo —Herbert Burkholz, N.Y. Times Mag., 21 Sept. 1980 • ... third graders in Denver—some Hispanic kids, some Indochinese, with half the class Anglo —Lawrence Fuchs, People, 6 Dec. 1982 • To Anglo minds, Latins often seem to typify the macho ethos; how then does Puerto Rico happen to have women in many of its top jobs? —Lorraine Davis, Vogue, January 1984 How far these terms are disparaging, it is hard to tell. We have some evidence that the U.S. Anglo has been considered a derogatory term, but evidence in print suggests that it is apparently not so apprehended a great majority of the time. If the term was in origin disparaging, its usefulness as a classifying term has obscured that intent. Most of our current evidence—and there is a lot—appears neutral. There is also use of Anglo in British English. Our evidence for it is somewhat thin, but at least sometimes it refers to one who is English, as distinguished from Irish, Scottish, or Welsh—and perhaps others. This term may be used disparagingly: • From the start Scotland produced brilliant players, saw them bribed away to play in England and spat after them the contemptuous term "Anglos" —Brian James, Sunday Times Mag. (London), 2 June 1974 |
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