Obama doesn't 'get' the UK because he's not white - Romney adviser

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"Anglo Saxon" cuts the Normans (almost all of our legal words are from the French for a reason) and the Celts out of the action.

The headline is quite tendentious and false and misleading of course. Mittens' unnamed "advisors" although getting it wrong technically, were referring to culture of course, not race. Sad.

Normans don't fit the mythos of the American self-image.

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This looks interesting ...

Some of the countries are terribly miscategorized. It is safe to say that the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Slovenia, and Croatia are part of "Catholic Europe". Communist influence in such countries is dead. Identity of western Germany as "Protestant Europe" is shaky because parts of western and especially southern Germany are strongly Catholic.

The "Asia" category lumps countries as disparate as the Philippines (which is culturally similar more to Latin America -- consider its history -- than any other part of Asia, even to such near-neighbors as China, Vietnam, Japan, Indonesia, and Malaysia) with India (a region in itself) or Turkey. There is no distinction between Islamic and non-Islamic countries.  Morocco and South Africa have little in common. Jordan and Morocco belong together. 

You could argue for, for instance, Japan being practically anywhere on this stupid chart, since there isn't a clear division between 'secular-rational' and 'traditional' in Japanese thought; I could say similar things about the so-called 'survival/self-expression' dichotomy for vast swathes of the Third World.

what about the Third World is distinctive here?