Anglo-Celtic Australians

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Anglo-Celtic Australians are a predominantly English-speaking ancestral group of Australians whose ancestors originate wholly or partially in the British and Irish Isles – predominantly in England (including Cornwall), Ireland, Scotland and Wales, as well as the Isle of Man, Channel Islands and British Isles descendent people of other settler colonies such as New Zealand, Canada, and historically, British Africa. While Anglo-Celtic Australians do not form an official ethnic grouping in the Australian Bureau of Statistics' Australian Standard Classification of Cultural and Ethnic Groups, due to the long historical dominance and intermixture of Australians with ancestries from the British Isles, it is commonly used as an informal ethnic identifier. The term has received criticism for erasing historical distinctions between English and Celtic settlers. In particular, it does not account for the political and social segregation of English and Irish Australians which some scholars have labelled...

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