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Anglic peoples include the English-speaking peoples of the British Isles, and their former colonial extensions into North America, Australia, and New Zealand. There are smaller colonies of them elsewhere. |
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The British people include the English, Scottish, and Welsh peoples of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the Irish peole of Ireland. There are also a few minor islands in the British Isles whose people can be included in this group.
The American peoples include most of the inhabitants of the United States and Canada, with a few islands and island groups in the Caribbean Sea, for instance Jamaica.
These include chiefly the modern inhabitants of Australia and New Zealand.
HistoryThis page includes information on the development of principally Anglic, Anglophone, or English-speaking countries. They have roots in prehistory and antiquity, but these can only be examined using methods of archaeology. Most of their development has come during the classical and medieval period with the nation now known as the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. In modern times, the British established colonies in North America, including what are now Canada, the United States, and parts of the Caribbean Islands. The United States broke away from British rule in the 18th century and the nation became anglicized. In spite of this loss, during the 19th century the British established a world-spanning empire with holdings in Africa and India, which were less thoroughly Anglicized. In the 20th century, the British empire broke up, but the Anglic peoples continued to have significant worldwide influence. |
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Other SociologyOther peoples of the world, communities, and social structure and change can be applied to the anglic peoples and may help give considerable insight. InstitutionsParticular traditions are important. Pagan religion was formerly important, and was chiefly a variant of European pagan religion. Celtic, Germanic, and Norse religion had an early influence. Roman and Greek religions were mostly known from later study. Asiatic pagan religion is less known. African and American Indian pagan religions have been studied to some extent. Abrahamic religion is most significant. Judaism has been important. Their history is closely collected with Christianity, including Primitive christianity to someextent. Catholicism and Protestantism have been highly important. Orthodoxy and Mormonism are less well known. Islam is less understood. Secularism has also been significant. Asiatic religion including Oriental religion and Persian religion is less influential. Indian religion including Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, and Jainism is present but not highly important. Religious organization is more fragmented than unstructure or highly organized. Religious practice and belief can be examined. Government Particular governments including international including traditional empires, colonial empires, and modern compacts such as world governments including the League of Nations and the United Nations, regional associations, special purpose associations, and temporary alliances, national, and local governments are applicable. Government activities such as state relations including warfare, diplomacy, and espionage, administration, and succession including inheritance, election, appointment, and siezure are important.Government structure including government forms, heads of state, executive systems, legislative systems, judicial cystems, and interest groups can be connected. There is some basis for discussing law including tribal law, Asiatic law, Western law, and international law. Connections to economics, including economic activities will also be developed. Industries with companies including agriculture, extraction and manufactiruing, building and construction, transportation, communication, and commercial and financial services will be important. Economic systems including firms, networks, economic system types, and economic system behavior can be considered. Connections to education including research, teaching, cultural institutions, educational organization, and particular schools will be significant.Families, including marriage, parent-child relations, kinship, and particular families are important. CultureBehavioral culture. Cultural events including miscellanous events, disasters, gatherings, and holidays can be considered. Recreation and entertainment including music, dance, theater, games, and sports can be connected. Occupations and customs will also be useful. Conceptual culture including language, graphics, literature, mathematics, applied science, and philosophy is also significant. Material culture including foodstuffs, clothing, buildings, transportation technology, communication technology, industrial technology, and other artifacts, can be connected. AnthropologyParticular groups will also be useful. An example is the Wright Brothers Human geography, particularly European geography, but also North American geography is also important. There has been a presence in Asian geography, but it has been generally deccreasing. Human ecology including environmental influences, other life forms, and human influences on the environment is important. Physical anthropology is somewhat connected. Human origins are not very useful here. These peoples are a product of racial variation and human dispersion. Demography including births, deaths, migration, population size, and population change will be more useful. Connections to social foundations such as social presentation, social interaction, social control, social group behavior, and group types are at a fairly low level and not easy to connect. Personal studiesThere are numerous biographical entries, but most of these are connected with either the UK or the US. Those not yet well connected include
Others who did not originate with anglic peopes but nevertheless had strong connections with it include: Psychology including ehavioral fundamentals, mind, behavior patterns, developmental psychology, mental disorders, personality, and social psychology may be useful. Studies of the human body including body systems, body functions, life cycle, disease, and form and appearance are for the most part only indirectly significant. ScienceThis has only indirect connections to Anglic peoples. Physics and chemistry are at too low a level to be directly useful. Astronomy and earth science are more applicable. Biology including molecular biology, cell biology, organism biology, systematics, and ecology can be connected. Biohistory including Precambrian biology, Paleozoic biology, Mesozoic biology, and Cenozoic biology can be connected. |
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