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The term Anglo-Celtic is primarily associated with Australians of British and/or Irish ancestry. It reflects the ethno-cultural composition of post-colonial Australian society, in which English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Cornish, Manx, Dutch and German peoples fused through inter-marriage into a single national group.. Since European settlement of Australia in 1788, people of Anglo-Celtic ancestral origins have comprised the majority of the Australian population.
Other terms like Anglo, Anglo-Australian, Anglo-Saxon, or Anglo-Saxon-Celtic are used interchangeably with Anglo-Celtic (sometimes inaccurately, such as for persons whose lineage cannot be confirmed or established, or who are of an exclusively Celtic background). The derogatory word skip has been used by some ethnic groups in Australia to refer to Anglo-Celtic Australians in reference to the 1960s television program Skippy the Bush Kangaroo.
Anglo-Celtic is a combination of the combining form Anglo- and the adjective Celtic. Anglo-, meaning English and sometimes British is derived from the Angles, a Germanic people that settled mainly in England in the middle of the first millennium. The name England (Old English: Engla land or Ængla land) originates from these people. Celtic, in this context, refers to the people of Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Cornwall, the Celtic nations of the British Isles.
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