The United States ambassador to Russia has argued that the Kremlin shouldn’t use the term “Anglo-Saxons” to describe American leadership, as the country has supposedly been “enriched” by immigrants.
“U.S. ambassador to Russia Lynne Tracy has argued that the Kremlin shouldn’t use the term ‘Anglo-Saxons’ to describe American and British leadership, as the U.S. is ‘enriched’ by immigrants. Tracy’s tenure in Moscow has already proven contentious, with Russia’s Foreign Ministry accusing her of ‘direct interference’ in the country’s affairs.
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| Ambassador to Russia Lynne M. Tracy |
Russian officials, including President Vladimir Putin and former President Dmitry Medvedev, have repeatedly used the term ‘Anglo-Saxons’ to describe the foreign leaders – mostly in the UK and U.S. – pushing the hardest anti-Russia policies. The publication of Russia’s updated foreign policy doctrine last month made its use official, listing ‘the U.S. and other Anglo-Saxon states separately from countries in the ‘European region’.
‘It does not at all reflect the essence of the United States, which is a multinational country where people from all over the world live’, Tracy told the Kommersant newspaper.
‘And all of them, as you know, have contributed to American culture, greatly enriched American life’, she added.
Tracy’s issue, however, with the Kremlin’s phrasing is relatively minor compared to the numerous other controversies that have emerged since she arrived in Moscow in January.
Tracy, along with Britain and Canada’s envoys to Russia, were summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry earlier this month for demanding the ‘immediate release’ of Vladimir Kara-Murza, an opposition activist who was found guilty of treason and handed a 25-year prison sentence.
Tracy’s ‘provocative statements’ amounted to ‘blatant interference into internal affairs’, the ministry said, referring to Kara-Murza as a U.S.-backed ‘agent of influence’”. -RT
“In 1980, the foreign-born population in the United States was about 4.5 million. By 2000, it had reached 11.3 million, bringing the foreign-born population to about 13 percent of the total. In the early 20th century, after the last big wave of immigration to the United States, immigrants had reached 15 percent of the population”. -New York Times
Since the year 2000, the Caucasian population under the age of eighteen has shrunk by over seven million.
In Federalist No. 2, titled "Concerning Dangers From Foreign Force and Influence", John Jay famously wrote:
“Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people — a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion… very similar in their manners and customs…
This country and this people seem to have been made for each other, and it appears as if it was the design of Providence, that an inheritance so proper and convenient for a band of brethren, united to each other by the strongest ties, should never be split into a number of unsocial, jealous, and alien sovereignties”.
Unfortunately, with each passing year, fewer and fewer Americans are descended from their Anglican Founding Fathers. Less and less do Americans all speak the same language, profess the same religion, and share the same customs, traditions, and holidays.
There’s no escaping the fact that America has been remade, without the consent of the American people. Yet the civic nationalist belief that a multi-ethnic America is safer and more prosperous than an Anglo-Saxon America remains the prevailing attitude in today’s society.
In truth, anything short of genuine American nationalism is simply the elevation of loyalty to the political state above loyalty to the actual nation.
Nation derives from one’s birth. However, it’s not a matter of where one was born, but rather to whom one was born.