ANGLOPHOBIA IS ROOTED IN RACISM AND IS A TYPE OF RACISM THAT TARGETS EXPRESSIONS OF ENGLISHNESS OR PERCEIVED ENGLISHNESS.
The proposed definition of Anglophobia can be illustrated by a range of guidelines and examples rather than a list of essential features, which we feel would confine a prescriptiveness to its understanding to the detriment of contextual and fluid factors which continue to inform and shape manifestations of Anglophobia.
Contemporary examples of Anglophobia in public life, the media, schools, the workplace, and in encounters between religions and non-religions in the public sphere could, taking into account the overall context, include, but are not limited to:
Calling for, aiding, instigating or justifying the killing or harming of English people in the name of a racist/ fascist/nationalist ideology, or an extremist view of religion.
• Making mendacious, dehumanizing, demonizing, or stereotypical allegations about English people as such, or of the English as a collective group, such as, especially but not exclusively, conspiracies about English dominance in politics, government or other societal institutions; the myth of English identity having a unique propensity for imperialism or racism, and claims of a demographic ‘threat’ posed by the English or of an ‘English dominance’.
• Accusing the English as a group, or as individuals of being responsible for real or imagined wrongdoing committed by a single English person or group of English individuals, or even for acts committed by non-English.
• Accusing the English as a group, or English speaking states, of inventing or exaggerating Anglophobia, ethnic cleansing or genocide perpetrated against the English.
• Denying English populations the right to self determination e.g., by having a capital that’s not English
• Applying double standards by requiring of English behaviours that are not expected or demanded of any other groups in society, eg making English people apologise for the actions of American policemen
• Using the symbols and images associated with classic Anglophobia (e.g. English people being Gammons, Little Englanders, claims of White Privilege, or subjugating minority groups under their rule) to characterize the English as being ‘racists’, inherently violent or incapable of living harmoniously in plural societies.
Blaming English people for the existence of slavery, and demanding that they apologise for it.
