What Race Is Anglo Saxon?

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Ethnically, the Anglo-Saxons Actually Represented an Admixture of Germanic Peoples Germanic Peoples the Teutons (Latin: Teutones, Teutoni, Ancient Greek...

What Race Is Anglo Saxon?

Ethnically, the Anglo-Saxons actually represented an admixture of Germanic peoples

Germanic peoples
The Teutons (Latin: Teutones, Teutoni, Ancient Greek: Τεύτονες) were an ancient northern European tribe mentioned by Roman authors. The Teutons are best known for their participation, together with the Cimbri and other groups, in the Cimbrian War with the Roman Republic in the late 2nd century BC.
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with Britain's preexisting Celtic inhabitants and subsequent Viking and Danish invaders.

What race is Anglo?

In the Southwest United States, "Anglo", short for "Anglo American", is used as a synonym for non-Latino whites; that is European Americans (except people who speak Romance languages), most of whom speak the English language, even those who are not necessarily of English or British descent.

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What nationality were the Anglo-Saxons?

The people we call Anglo-Saxons were actually immigrants from northern Germany and southern Scandinavia. Bede, a monk from Northumbria writing some centuries later, says that they were from some of the most powerful and warlike tribes in Germany. Bede names three of these tribes: the Angles, Saxons and Jutes.

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