Saturday, September 25, 2010

The Anglosphere

Read an interesting article in The Telegraph, a Brit paper's website, about the Anglosphere, the collection of English-speaking nations. The author includes the U.K., Ireland, Canada, the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, and India, plus smaller nations like Malta, Singapore, and some Caribbean nations. He sees this collection of nations as a substantial force for good on the planet

The author includes the United States, although how much longer that will be possible is anybody's guess, amigo. We don't seem to be doing a very good job of getting our enormous and rapidly growing Hispanic immigrant population to become Anglophone.

I like the idea of Anglosphere-oriented diplomacy and foreign policy, but as the author notes, current U.S. leadership doesn't seem so inclined.