This term is a prefix that refers to white, English-speaking persons of British, Irish, or other northern European origins. It derives from the phrase Anglo-Saxon, which refers to the earliest historical manifestation of the English language. In Bell’s novel, steelworkers who self-identify as “Anglo” use the term to denote their alleged cultural superiority over central European immigrants such as Slovaks and other Slavic peoples who speak Indo-European languages and represent the most recent wave of immigration to America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Anglo Quotes in Out of This Furnace
The Out of This Furnace quotes below are all either spoken by Anglo or refer to Anglo. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Part 2, Chapter 1
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That hostility, that contempt, epitomized in the epithet “Hunky,” was the most profound and lasting influence on their personal lives the Slovaks of the steel towns encountered in America.
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