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by unmole 1109 days ago
I don't understand the point you're trying to make. What is even the point of generalising something to the Anglosphere if it is only applicable to North America?
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Now now, don't enrage the Americans with logic. Everyone knows the Angles were Germans who moved to America to provide beer for the early settlers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angles_(tribe)
I'm American and unafraid of logic. In fact it makes perfect sense to me to believe that the Angles were a good source for beer for early settlers.

In fact it probably explains the inscription on an old headstone that many considered to be a misspelling - "Gone to be an angle".

In this context I think the inscription fits perfectly for a poor soul who passed on to a better life where they expected to be able to find lots of beer after having spent their mortal life as a teetotaling Christian. If anyone asked about the spelling "error", their relatives could all claim it was misspelled while never revealing the truth that the departed really just wanted to enjoy a cold one after they had become a cold one.

The point is whataver America does is basically western / English civilization because the USA is such a big deal.
But just say USA then? If you say anything else (however big a component of it the USA is) it just sounds pointedly like 'not just the USA but those others too'.

I don't talk about 'the former British Empire' or 'the Commonwealth' or something when I mean the UK. (Or in the other direction, 'GB' or 'England' pointedly exclude Northern Ireland or Wales & Scotland too. The St George flag (of England) has football hooliganism associations somewhat as a consequence of that.)