How many people have a completely homogeneous white Anglo-Saxon family any more?

[NNN0LHI]

I know I sure don't. Both sides of my family have non-white blood relatives in it now. Plenty of them. You should see one of our family reunions.

Are there a lot a families like mine out there?

Don

[valerief]

1. Better question: How many people care?

BTW, I'm part amoeba.

[Arkansas Granny]

2. Certainly not my family.

If we were dogs, we'd be mutts.

[TrogL]

3. Define "Anglo-Saxon"

I'm of Norwegian heritage.

[arely staircase]

4. most white people are not anglos nt

[haele]

5. My grandparent's generation tried to pretend they had one.

In their day, it was the acceptable thing to do.
But a good geneology search pretty much blew that out of the water. In the late 18th/early 19th century, there were a couple who who were "passing". One side was pretty much pure late 19th century immigrant Scandahoovian/Laplander and Russian; the other had lots of Bavarians, Gaelic Scots, and French. Not to mention a few Irish.

And Anglo-Saxon is such a small European cultural subset that probably hasn't been "pure" since the 13th Century. There may be one or two inbred families on one of the remoter islands off Denmark or Lower Saxony in the North Sea might hold a claim to be pure Anglo-Saxon, but from England?

Haele

[MissMarple]

12. After the Normans, the Angevins certainly did their part to bring a bit of France to England.

Now we call them the Plantagenets. They certainly seem to have been a prolific lot.

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

6. All white, yes... but catholic (not anglo-saxon).

[aikoaiko]

7. I come from a long line of poor eastern Europeans who did not value cultural diversity

There's nothing special or highfalutin about my lineage, just parochial.

[Romulox]

8. I'm not an "Anglo", and I point that out anytime anyone calls me that in ignorance. nt

[kestrel91316]

9. Me.

[LibertyLover]

10. Not mine, that's for sure

I'm pretty much all Celtic, Irish and Scots, although one side of my father's family did originate with a Norman about the time of Henry II's conquest of Ireland. My husband has some American Indian, probably Cherokee and English via a Norman ancestor just after the Conquest, and German - so he could actually have some Anglo-Saxon blood. But our daughter is adopted from China, so there goes the white Anglo-Saxon family thing right there.

[Ichingcarpenter]

11. Nobody: unless your are from the 5th century

because it alll ended in 1066.

[MissMarple]

13. I usually just say I'm an American, a midwesterner.

We are really a mixed lot.

[nanabugg]

14. How many ever did? nt

[arely staircase]

15. Jutes

how come nobody identifies with, or even talks about, them any more?

[Go Vols]

16. .

The term "Anglo-Saxon" is sometimes used to refer to peoples descended or associated in some way with the English ethnic group. The definition has varied from time to time and varies from place to place. In contemporary Anglophone cultures outside the United Kingdom, the term is most commonly found in certain contexts, such as the term "White Anglo-Saxon Protestant" or "WASP". Such terms are often politicised, and bear little connection to the precise ethnological or historical definition of the term "Anglo-Saxon". It often encapsulates socio-economic identifiers more than ethnic ones.

[JDPriestly]

17. We are completely mixed.

Religions. Races. Ethnic backgrounds. Everything. Just from here and there. Every continent, but no Australians or New Zealanders as far as I know.