Isn’t it interesting that this is exactly what is done with the food though
I have a friend (“eatibus anythingus”) who jokes that he doesn’t eat tongue because it can taste you back. Also, that tongue has been in someone else’s mouth.
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Did that friend only ever date people who had never… “dated” anyone else before, too? 
In my personal experience, I’ve never heard of anyone referring to white British people as Anglos.
If people are white British, I just call them white British.
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I havent heard anyone else doing so either.
But I take heart from Gandhi’s comment that “even if you are a minority of one, the truth is still the truth”. 
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Ah, but you might also inadvertently offend people who consider themselves of Celtic (and not Anglo-Saxon) heritage!
A funny scenario I experienced in a nightclub in Liverpool in the early 2000s: A drunken white British lad lurched towards my friend (brown with long black hair), exclaiming “Come 'ere my beautiful Indian princess!”. She backed away, shrieking “Eff off, I’m Bangladeshi, not Indian!”
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Enjoy your contributions here whenever I catch one.
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Thank you!
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That’s funny. I could be mistaken for almost any Caucasian European nationality. I’ll have to think about which one would offend (or flatter?) me the most
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Trust YOU to think up a question like that ! 
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Good story. And one that resonates. I used to work in a borough that had significant populations of folk from Bangladeshi and Pakistani heritage. The two communities did not get on that well
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Might have had something to do with the period from 1947 to 1971.
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Indeed it might well.
I just read the American reference to refer to our typically insulated world view
We spend time in Tenerife during the winter, as do many other North Europeans. We’ll sit in a bar and “people watch” - often playing our “guess the nationality” game, checking out if we were right when they get closer and we can hear them speaking. I reckon we’re right more often than chance would suggest.
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That used to be my party trick. I was international sales for a large manufacturer and my colleagues would run side bets as to whether I could pick the country on the name badge as they werw walking down the aisles at the enormous international trade shows that used to be the norm.
They quit betting on me when they realized that i was running at 60-70% correct. I never told them it was actually mostly based on clothing.
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Clothing, followed by hair styles (both men & women), for us.
At a tangent, I used to volunteer at the local hospital. I helped staff an information desk at the main entrance. The idea was that a friendly face could not only be of direct help but could also help calm an anxious patient, or family member. So, the big decision whenever anyone walked towards the desk was do I greet them with a polite but formal “good morning” or a much more relaxed “hiya”. Clothes were the main indicators.
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This was so much easier when we all wore suits. I recall being at a conference and I was sitting with a few of my American colleagues. This one fellow strolls in and I say to my group that’s a Brit. Then a bunch of Germans. They ask me how can I know that without even speaking with them. Easy. Cut and color of the suits. I confounded the euros as I didn’t wear white button down shirts with a box cut suit.
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I’m always surprised how many ill-fitting suits I see in the US. I’m absolutely baffled why that’s the case. It’s not like well-tailored suits aren’t available in this country.
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Reminds me, shortly after I came to Canada to study, a fellow Indian stopped me on the university campus and asked me if I was Ismaili (a follower of the Aga Khan). This amazed me as I had just spent six years at an Aga Khan School. I said no, and asked him what made him ask that. He said it was because of the way I was dressed.
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