Anglosphere is a neologism which refers to those nations with English as the most common language. The term can be used more specifically to refer to those nations which share certain characteristics within their cultures based on a linguistic heritage, through being former British colonies. In particular, this includes the United Kingdom, from where the language originates, Australia, Canada (except Quebec), New Zealand, Ireland and the United States.

Definition[link]

Look up anglosphere in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary defines the Anglosphere as "the group of countries where English is the main native language".^[1] The Merriam-Webster dictionary uses the definition: "the countries of the world in which the English language and cultural values predominate".^[2]

Map of English-speaking world[link]

English:  

  Countries where English is the national language or the native language of the majority.

  Countries or regions where English is an official language and language of science and high culture, but not the language of the majority .

List of English Speaking Countries[link]

Countries where English is a de jure/official language

Country	Region	Population1
Antigua and Barbuda[3]	Caribbean	85,000
Bahamas, The[3]	Caribbean	331,000
Barbados[4]	Caribbean	294,000
Belize [5]	Central America / Caribbean	288,000
Botswana [5]	Africa	1,882,000
Cameroon[3]	Africa	18,549,000
Dominica[3]	Caribbean	73,000
Eritrea[3]	Africa	5,224,000
Ethiopia[3]	Africa	82,101,998
Fiji[3]	Oceania	827,900
The Gambia[3]	Africa	1,709,000
Ghana[3]	Africa	23,478,000
Grenada[3]	Caribbean	106,000
India [5][6]	Asia	1,143,540,000
Jamaica[7]	Caribbean	2,714,000
Kenya[3]	Africa	37,538,000
Kiribati[3]	Oceania	95,000
Lesotho[3]	Africa	2,008,000
Liberia[3]	Africa	3,750,000
Malawi[8]	Africa	13,925,000
Malta[3]	Europe	412,600
Marshall Islands[3]	Oceania	59,000
Mauritius[3]	Africa / Indian Ocean	1,262,000
Federated States of Micronesia[3]	Oceania	111,000
Namibia[3]	Africa	2,074,000
Nauru[9]	Oceania	10,000
Nigeria[3][10]	Africa	170,123,740
Pakistan[3]	Asia	165,449,000
Palau [5]	Oceania	20,000
Papua New Guinea[11][12]	Oceania	6,331,000
Philippines[3][13]	Asia	90,457,200
Rwanda[3]	Africa	9,725,000
Saint Kitts and Nevis[14]	Caribbean	50,000
Saint Lucia[3]	Caribbean	165,000
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines[15]	Caribbean	120,000
Samoa[16]	Oceania	188,359
22x20px Seychelles[3]	Africa / Indian Ocean	87,000
Sierra Leone[3]	Africa	5,866,000
Singapore[17]	Asia	4,839,400
Solomon Islands[3]	Oceania	506,992
South Africa[18]	Africa	47,850,700
South Sudan[19]	Africa	8,260,490
Sudan[3]	Africa	31,894,000
Swaziland[3]	Africa	1,141,000
Tanzania[3]	Africa	40,454,000
Tonga[20]	Oceania	100,000
Trinidad and Tobago[3]	Caribbean	1,333,000
Tuvalu[5]	Oceania	11,000
Uganda[3]	Africa	30,884,000
Vanuatu[21]	Oceania	226,000
Zambia[3]	Africa	11,922,000
Zimbabwe[3]	Africa	13,349,000

Countries where English is primary vernacular of the majority

Country	Region	Population1
Australia[22]	Australia	22,374,370
Canada[3]	North America	33,531,000
Guyana[23]	South America / Caribbean	738,000
Ireland[24]	Europe	4,581,269
New Zealand[3]	Oceania	4,294,350
United Kingdom	Europe	61,612,300
United States	North America	309,442,000
Total Population of Majority English-Speaking Countries	North America, Europe, Oceania, South America	436,574,289

See also[link]

• ABCA Armies
• Anglicisation
• Anglo-African
• British Empire
• Commonwealth of Nations
• Echelon
• English in the Commonwealth of Nations
• English-speaking world
• History of the English language
• History of the English Speaking Peoples (Winston Churchill)
• Sinosphere
• UKUSA Agreement

Notes[link]

References[link]

• Bennett, James C. (2004). The anglosphere challenge: why the English-speaking nations will lead the way in the twenty-first century. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 0-7425-3332-8. 
• Brown, Andrew (15 February 2003). "Scourge and poet". The Guardian. http://books.guardian.co.uk/poetry/features/0,12887,902797,00.html. 
• Conquest, Robert; reply by Ignatieff, Michael (23 March 2000), The 'Anglosphere', the New York Review of Books, http://www.nybooks.com/articles/104, retrieved 2007-07-24 .
• Merriam-Webster Staff (2010). "anglosphere.". Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anglosphere. Retrieved August 5, 2010. 
• Reynolds, Glenn (28 October 2004). "Explaining the 'Anglosphere'". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/oct/28/uselections2004.usa4. 
• Roberts, Andrew (2006). A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-297-85076-8. 
• Luca Bellocchio, L'eterna alleanza? La special relationship angloamericana tra continuità e mutamento, Franco Angeli, Milano, 2006 francoangeli.it
• Luca Bellocchio, Anglosfera. Forma e forza del nuovo Pan-Anglismo, Il Nuovo Melangolo, Genova, 2006.

Jonathan David Anthony Bowden (April 12, 1962 - March 29, 2012)^[1] was a British political figure who had been involved with a number of political parties and groups, and a leading speaker on the nationalist circuit. His great influence was the novelist, Bill Hopkins, who had been one of the Angry Young Men of the 1950s.

Early politics[link]

Bowden was born in Kent and was educated at Presentation College, Reading, Berkshire. In 1983-4 he completed one year of a B.A. history course at London University's Birkbeck College, but then left. He began his political career as a member of the Conservative Party in the Tower Hamlets association, in the Shoreditch and Stepney Green constituency. In October 1990 (until 1992) he joined the Monday Club, where the following year he made an unsuccessful bid to stand for its Executive Council. In May 1991, he was appointed co-chairman, with Stuart Millson, of the Club's Media Committee^[2][3]. During the early 1990s, he stated that he had been the deputy chairman of the Western Goals Institute^[4] although this cannot be verified.

Revolutionary Conservative Caucus[link]

Bowden and Millson co-founded the Revolutionary Conservative Caucus in November 1992,^[5] with, he said, the aim of introducing "abstract thought into the nether reaches of the Conservative and Unionist party".^[6] In the group's first quarterly journal, The Revolutionary Conservative Review, it stated that "The Caucus has been established by Right-wing activists within the Conservative Party in order to disseminate information, ideology, and intellectual opinion within and beyond the party." However, the journal's name was almost immediately changed to The Revolutionary Conservative, and in issue number 1, they stated that the Caucus "is dedicated to national sovereignty, European culture, masculinity, ruthless elitism, and racial purity." They were attacked by Sir Norman Fowler in the Sunday Express who said, "These people are not remotely typical of mainstream Conservatives", and by James Glyn Ford, MEP, speaking at the 1993 Labour Party Conference when he said, "The Tories have a Far-Right tendency....I have passed details of the Revolutionary Conservative Caucus to Special Branch...". However the Conservative MP Rupert Allason was quoted in Searchlight magazine as saying "If they are against Maastricht, they can't be bad."^[7] Issue no.3 of their journal was devoted entirely to the continuing power struggle within the Monday Club following the departure of Gregory Lauder-Frost at the end of May 1992. By the end of 1994, Millson and Bowden had parted company and issue no.4 was the last production of the Caucus.

Later activities[link]

Bowden's book Right was published by the European Books Society in 1993 and brought praised from Gregory Lauder-Frost in The Revolutionary Conservative.^[8] Bowden was also said to be prominent in the milieu responsible for the emergence of Right Now! magazine.^[9]

He later joined the Freedom Party, for which he acted as Treasurer for a short period,^[10] and subsequently, with Adrian Davies, was a member of the Bloomsbury Forum.^[11] Bowden contributed an essay (Bill)"Hopkins - An Angry Young Man" to the book of 20 essays Standardbearers - British Roots of the New Right which he, with Adrian Davies and Eddy Butler, also edited. The book carried a Foreword by a former Vice-President of the Monday Club, Professor Antony Flew^[12].

Bowden went on to join the British National Party (BNP), and was for a period its Cultural Officer. In July 2007, he resigned from the BNP following a bitter dispute in which an associate of BNP leader Nick Griffin made defamatory allegations against Bowden on a blog.^[13] It has been claimed by Martin Webster that Bowden was forced out of the party due to his support for Chris Jackson, who made an unsuccessful attempt to replace Griffin as leader.^[14] After September 2008, Bowden resumed speaking at BNP events, but never rejoined the party. Since the May 2010 elections he had no further connection to the BNP.

New Right[link]

Jonathan Bowden began working with long-time activist Troy Southgate in January 2005 and went on to become Chairman of the New Right. He spoke at thirty-three of the group's meetings in central London. The topics were as follows:

37th New Right Meeting: Saturday 4th February 2012 - 'The Soviet Gulag'

36th New Right Meeting: Saturday 10th December 2011 - 'Yukio Mishima'

35th New Right Meeting: Saturday 15th October 2011 - 'W.B. Yeats'

34th New Right Meeting: Saturday 6th August 2011 -T.S. Eliot

33rd New Right Meeting: Saturday 11th June 2011 - 'Ezra Pound'

29th New Right Meeting: Saturday 23rd October 2010 - 'Savitri Devi: Daughter of the Black Sun'

28th New Right Meeting: Saturday 28th August 2010 - 'Black Propaganda: Murnau's Nosferatu and Right-Wing Aesthetics'

27th New Right Meeting: Saturday 5th June 2010 - 'Julius Evola: The World's Most Right-Wing Thinker?'

26th New Right Meeting: Saturday 17th April 2010 - 'Robert Erwin Howard: Pulpster Extraordinaire'

25th New Right Meeting: Saturday 13th February 2010 - 'Stewart Home: Communism, Nihilism, Neoism and Decadence'

24th New Right Meeting: Saturday 21st November 2009 - 'The Real Meaning of Punch & Judy'

23rd New Right Meeting: Saturday 26th September 2009 - 'Nineteen Eighty-Four & Totalitarian Leftism'

22nd New Right Meeting: Saturday 1st August 2009 - 'Francis Pollini & the Cult of Communist Brainwashing'

21st New Right Meeting: 13th June 2009 - 'Tintin & the Example of Degrellle'

20th New Right Meeting: 4th April 2009 - 'Louis-Ferdinand Céline & the Literature of French Collaboration'

19th New Right Meeting: 7th February 2009 - ‘H.P. Lovecraft: Aryan Mystic’

17th New Right Meeting: 25th October 2008 - 'Max Stirner: Egoist Without Compare'

16th New Right Meeting: 30th August 2008 - 'Criminology: The View From The Right'

15th New Right Meeting: 5th July 2008 - 'Thomas Carlyle: The Sage of Chelsea'

14th New right Meeting: 5th April 2008 - 'The Films of Hans-Jurgen Syberberg: Leni Riefenstahl's Successor?'

13th New Right Meeting: 12th January 2008 - New-Left Marxism & the Frankfurt School

12th New Right Meeting: 3rd November 2007 - Revisionism: Left & Right, Hard & Soft

11th New Right Meeting: 8th September 2007 - The Art & Philosophy of Jonathan Bowden

10th New Right Meeting: 5th May 2007 - Performance of Beowulf (Part One)

9th New Right Meeting: 13th January 2007 - Robinson Jeffers: Misanthrope Extraordinaire

8th New Right Meeting: 28th May 2006 - Elitism, British Modernism & Wyndham Lewis

7th New Right Meeting: 8th April 2006 - Bill Hopkins and Anti-Humanist Life

6th New Right Meeting: 18th February 2006 - Martin Heidegger & Death's Ontology

5th New Right Meeting: 14th January 2006 - Anti-Liberal Art and Film

4th New Right Meeting: 17th September 2005 - Leni Riefenstahl

3rd New Right Meeting: 28th May 2005 - Ernst Junger: Revolutionary Conservative

2nd New Right Meeting: 12th March 2005 - Nietzsche and Post-Modernism

1st New Right Meeting: 16th January 2005 - 'The History of the British New Right'

Death[link]

He died on 29th March, 2012, from a heart attack at his home in Berkshire.^[15]

Articles[link]

By Jonathan Bowden:

In The Revolutionary Conservative, Issue no.1, London, 1993.

• "John Major - Alone in Toytown without Big Ears".
• "Madonna and Sex; the Erotic Cavortings of a Deranged Bimbo".
• Book Review of Oswald Spengler's "Man & Technics".
• "Culture of the New Right" an article on Wyndham Lewis.

In The Revolutionary Conservative, Issue no.2.

• "Why are we in Bosnia?".
• "Whither The Royals - an Institution in Terminal Decline."

In The Revolutionary Conservative, Issue no.4, London,Summer/Autumn 1994.

• "Animal Liberation" - an investigation of the fanatics.
• "Spotlight on Tina Turner".
• "Militant - an analysis" (with Stuart Millson).
• "A Revolutionary Social & Economic Policy for Conservatives in the 21st century (with John MacLaughlin).

Books[link]

• Mad, Avant-Garde Publishing (1989).
• Aryan, Egotist (1990).
• Skin, Egotist (1992).
• Sade, Egotist (1992).
• Right, European Books Society (1993).
• Collected Works, Avant-guarde (1995).
• Standardbearers - British Roots of the New Right, edited by Adrian Davies, Eddy Butler & Jonathan Bowden; Beckenham, Kent, 180pps, (April 1999).
• Apocalypse TV (2007).
• The Art of Jonathan Bowden (1974 - 2007) (2007).
• The Fanatical Pursuit of Purity" (2008).
• Al-Qa’eda Moth" (2008).
• Kratos (2008).
• A Ballet of Wasps" (2008).
• Goodbye Homunculus!" (2009).
• The Art of Jonathan Bowden, Vol. 2 (1968 - 1974) (2009).
• Lilith Before Eve" (2009).
• Louisiana Half-Face" (2010).
• The Art of Jonathan Bowden, Vol. 3 (1967 - 1974) (2010).

Art[link]

Bowden was also a talented artist and produced hundreds of nightmarish caricatures, many of which adorn his novels. These are collected in three coffee-table book volumes, which include his early graphic novels / comic strips as well as his adult work.

Film[link]

He also starred in two avant-garde films, 'Venus Flytrap' (2005) and 'Grand Guignol' (2009), each directed by the Italian film-maker Andrea Lioy.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Jonathan Bowden- Nietzschean Powerhouse
• Jonathan Bowden addresses a 2009 meeting of the British National Party in Greenwich, London
• Obituary

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Samuel Jared Taylor
Born	1951 Japan
Residence	Oakton, Virginia
Alma mater	Yale University, Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris
Occupation	Journalist, Executive editor
Website
www.jaredtaylor.org

Samuel Jared Taylor (born 1951) of Oakton, Virginia, is an American journalist and an advocate of what he describes as "racial realism", a philosophy that views race as a biological reality and advocates the separateness of racial groups as the key of a well functioning society.^[1] He is known for his advocacy of racial profiling as a valid technique in crime fighting and for his role as a relatively moderate voice in the American white nationalist environment.^[2]

Taylor is the founder and editor of American Renaissance, a journal that describes itself as "America's premiere publication of racial-realist thought."^[3] He is the president of the parent organization, New Century Foundation, and a former director of the National Policy Institute, a Georgia-based think tank. He is a former member of the advisory board of The Occidental Quarterly. Taylor and many of the organizations he is associated with are often described as promoting racist ideologies by civil rights groups, news media as well as by academics studying racism in the US.^[4][5][6] He rejects these accusations himself, saying that his views are reasonable and moderate.^[7]

Early life[link]

Born to missionary parents in Japan,^[7] Taylor lived in that country until he was 16 years old. His parents were conventional liberals, and so was he until the age of 30. He graduated from Yale University in 1973 with a BA in Philosophy, and did graduate coursework at Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po). He has also worked in west Africa, and has traveled the area extensively.^[7] Taylor speaks fluent English, Japanese and French. In the 1980s, Taylor was West Coast editor of PC Magazine and a consultant before founding the American Renaissance periodical in 1990. Taylor has taught Japanese to summer school students at Harvard University.

Books[link]

This section relies on references to primary sources or sources affiliated with the subject, rather than references from independent authors and third-party publications. Please add citations from reliable sources. (May 2011)

He is the author of Shadows of the Rising Sun: A Critical View of the Japanese Miracle (1983) ISBN 0-688-02455-6, in which he wrote that Japan was not an appropriate economic or social model for the United States, and criticized the Japanese for excessive preoccupation with their own uniqueness.

Taylor first turned to race in Paved With Good Intentions: The Failure of Race Relations in Contemporary America (1993) ISBN 0-9656383-4-0,^[8] in which he argued that racism is no longer a convincing excuse for high black rates of crime, poverty, and school failure. He also edited The Real American Dilemma: Race, Immigration, and the Future of America, (1998) ISBN 0-9656383-0-8.^[9]

Taylor supervised preparation of the New Century Foundation monograph, The Color of Crime (1998, 2005), which argues that blacks and Hispanics commit violent crimes at considerably higher rates than whites, and that whites commit violent crimes at higher rates than Asians.^[10] He is the main contributor to a collection of articles from American Renaissance magazine called A Race Against Time: Racial Heresies for the 21st Century, (2003) ISBN 0-9656383-2-4^[11] and editor of a collection of essays by the late Samuel Francis entitled Essential Writings on Race, (2007) ISBN 978-0-9656383-7-1.^[12]

On May 3, 2011, The New Century Foundation released Jared Taylor's sequel to Paved With Good Intentions entitled White Identity: Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century.

Views[link]

Taylor believes that white people have their own racial interests, and that it is intellectually valid for them to protect these interests; he sees it as anomalous that whites have allowed people of other ethnicities to organize themselves politically while not doing so themselves.^[13] His journal American Renaissance was founded to provide such a voice for white interests, as well as to convince whites that this enterprise is a legitimate one.^[14] Taylor's beliefs are based on his view that human beings are essentially tribal by nature, and that people are instinctively loyal to those of their own race. As a result of this, he believes that societies comprising many ethnic groups cannot be as successful as those that are racially homogeneous.^[7]

Taylor has summarized the basis for his views in the following terms:

Race is an important aspect of individual and group identity. Of all the fault lines that divide society—language, religion, class, ideology—it is the most prominent and divisive. Race and racial conflict are at the heart of the most serious challenges the Western World faces in the 21st century... Attempts to gloss over the significance of race or even to deny its reality only make problems worse.^[15]

He has questioned the capacity of blacks to live successfully in a civilized society. In an article on the chaos in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, Taylor wrote "when blacks are left entirely to their own devices, Western Civilization—any kind of civilization—disappears. And in a crisis, civilization disappears overnight."^[16] Taylor believes in a direct correlation between race and intelligence, where blacks are generally less intelligent than whites, and whites are generally less intelligent than East Asians, as expressed in The Bell Curve. Taylor has said in an interview:

I think Asians are objectively superior to Whites by just about any measure that you can come up with in terms of what are the ingredients for a successful society. This doesn't mean that I want America to become Asian. I think every people has a right to be itself, and this becomes clear whether we're talking about Irian Jaya or Tibet, for that matter.^[17]

Taylor has made remarks on the growing number of non-whites in Europe, America and Australia.

Taylor has also given support to Hans-Hermann Hoppe's attempts to persuade libertarians to oppose immigration; he generally approves of Hoppe's work, although he sees the pursuit of a society with no government at all to be "the sort of experiment one might prefer to watch in a foreign country before attempting it oneself".^[18]

In a speech delivered on May 28, 2005, to the British self-determination group, Sovereignty, Taylor said of his personal feelings to interracial marriages, "I want my grandchildren to look like my grandparents. I don't want them to look like Anwar Sadat or Fu Manchu or Whoopi Goldberg."^[19]

Taylor is opposed to antisemitism.^{[citation needed]} In his 1983 book Shadows of the Rising Sun, he denounced imperial Japanese links to Nazi Germany. At the first American Renessiance conference, held in Atlanta in 1994, rabbi Mayer Schiller was the dinner speaker. In 1997, he removed Holocaust deniers and neo-Nazis from the groups' e-mail list.^[20]

Reception[link]

Taylor's views have been described as racist by some academics, political commentators, journalists, and various other organizations.^[21][22][23] Taylor himself refutes any accusation of racism; he claims that his views are reasonable and moderate, and that they were considered normal by most key figures in American history.^[7]

The Southern Poverty Law Center describes Taylor as "a courtly presenter of ideas that most would describe as crudely white supremacist — a kind of modern-day version of the refined but racist colonialist of old."^[24] A 2005 feature in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette described Taylor as "a racist in the guise of expert"^[25]

Mark Potok and Heidi Beirich, writers in the Intelligence Report (a publication of the Southern Poverty Law Center), has written that "Jared Taylor is the cultivated, cosmopolitan face of white supremacy. He is the guy who is providing the intellectual heft, in effect, to modern-day Klansmen." They have also stated that "American Renaissance has become increasingly important over the years, bringing a measure of intellectualism and seriousness to the typically thug-dominated world of white supremacy".^[20]

Taylor's views have drawn accusations of racism from various academics, political commentators, journalists, and activist organizations.^[26][27][28]

Conservative author and former National Review contributor John Derbyshire, while not condoning all of Taylor's work, has said that Taylor is a "polite and good-natured man," but that he is a "dissident" whose opinions "violate tribal taboos."^[29]

Bibliography[link]

• Taylor, Jared (1983). Shadows of the Rising Sun: a Critical View of the "Japanese miracle". New York: Morrow. ISBN 0-688-02455-6. 
• Taylor, Jared; Mitsunobu Yamamoto (1984) (in Japanese). Shado obu Japan. Tokyo: Kobunsha. ISBN 978-4-334-96006-3. 
• Taylor, Jared (1992). Paved With Good Intentions: The Failure of Race Relations in Contemporary America. New York: Carroll & Graf. ISBN 0-88184-866-2. 
• Taylor, Jared (1998). The Real American Dilemma: Race, Immigration, and the Future of America. Oakton, Va.: New Century Foundation. ISBN 0-9656383-0-8. 
• McDaniel, George (ed.) (2003). A Race Against Time: Racial Heresies for the 21st Century. Oakton, Va.: New Century Foundation. ISBN 0-9656383-2-4.  foreword by Jared Taylor
• Taylor, Jared (2011). White Identity: Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century. Oakton, Va.: New Century Foundation. ISBN 0-9656383-9-1. 

Footnotes[link]

References[link]

See also[link]

• American Renaissance (magazine)
• Racialism
• Racial realism
• Racial segregation in the United States
• Scientific racism
• White nationalism

External links[link]

• Jared Taylor Jared Taylor's personal website
• American Renaissance The website of American Renaissance