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In reply to the discussion: Romney Advisor: 'Obama doesn't appreciate the ANGLO-SAXON heritage we share with Great Britain.' [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)Let's start with present and former colonies/territories close to USA...Bermuda, Bahamas, Jamaica, Barbados, St. Kitts, Montserrat, BVI, Cayman Islands, etc., etc. and so forth.
There were and are a lot of dusky citizenry there--hell, Mittsy's been to the Caymans, he should know!!
When colonies achieved independence, a lot of people "came home" to the motherland. The people who are in lands still under the auspices of the Empire can and do come and go as they please.
Then there were all of the holdings in Africa, now idependent, but many citizens, upon independence, took the passports and ran, for example, people from KENYA, "Somalilanders," those Rhodesians (remember them?) and many South Africans, but also Ugandans, Tanzanians, etc.

http://www.britishempire.co.uk/maproom/africa.htm
Then, when we wander on over to INDIA, the Jewel In the Crown, and Pakistan, and what is now Bangladesh...well...a lot of the members of the British Empire who took their UK passports at independence weren't terribly Anglo-Saxon looking, now, were they?
I think Mittsy just made a Very Wrong Assumption about Great Britain. He might as well have said "We're all a bunch of RACISTS up in here, just so ya know!" Fucking idiot. Wait'll he turns on the news, and sees all the ARABS and INDIANS and ooooooooooooh BLACK PEOPLE giving him the day's reports in a lovely BBC accent. I think he might just poop his silken drawers a bit.
What a miscalculation!!!!