It is often used alone, somewhat loosely, to refer to people of British descent in Anglo-America, the Anglophone Caribbean, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand.
The term Anglo-African has been used historically to self-identify by people of mixed British and African ancestry born in the United States and in Africa.
[10][11] The Anglo-African Who's Who and Biographical Sketch-Book published in London in 1905 includes details of prominent British and Afrikaner people in Africa at that time.
[12] In Australia, Anglo is used as part of the terms Anglo-Australian and Anglo-Celtic, which refer to the majority of Australians, who are of English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish descent.
At the same time, however, John Lorne Campbell, whose decades long work as a collector alongside his wife, American ethnomusicologist Margaret Fay Shaw, preserved countless works of Canadian Gaelic and Scottish Gaelic literature, Hebridean mythology and folklore, and Scottish traditional music that may otherwise have been lost, was an Anglo-Scot.
The term Anglo-Scot is often used to describe Scottish sports players who are based in England or playing for English teams, or vice versa.
[citation needed] For instance, some Cajuns in southern Louisiana use the term to refer to white people who do not have Francophone backgrounds.
Irish Americans, the second largest self-identified ethnic group in the United States following German-Americans, also sometimes take umbrage at being called "Anglo".