Light rail is a generic international English phrase for these types of rail systems, which means more or less the same thing throughout the Anglosphere.

Anglosphere is a neologism that refers to those countries with English as the most common language.

The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary defines the Anglosphere as " the group of countries where English is the main native language ".

The other broad grouping is the use of English within the Anglosphere.

Native-born persons living in many of the Anglosphere nations such as the United Kingdom, Australia, United States, and New Zealand are frequently typecast as monoglots, owing to a worldwide perception that English speakers see little relevance in learning a second language due to the widespread distribution of English and its competent use even in many non-English speaking countries in Europe, Africa, and South Asia.

Many non-native English speakers study the subject with the goal of doing business with English-speaking countries, or with companies located outside the Anglosphere but which nonetheless use English as a shared language or lingua franca.

The symbol ua is recommended by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, and the international standard ISO 80000, while au is recommended by the International Astronomical Union, and is more common in Anglosphere countries.

Outside Anglophone countries, both in Europe and in the rest of the world, the term " Anglo-Saxon " and its direct translations are used to refer to the Anglophone peoples and societies of Britain, the United States, and other countries such as Australia, Canada and New Zealand – areas which are sometimes referred to as the Anglosphere.

The tradition of leaving a tooth under a pillow for the tooth fairy to collect is practised in various countries in the Anglosphere.

Advocates of an expanded government role follow instead in alternative streams of progressivism ; in the Anglosphere ( English-speaking countries, notably the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand ) this is associated with institutional economics and, at the macroeconomic level, with Keynesian economics.

Traditionally home-owenership has been encouraged by governments in Western countries ( especially Anglosphere countries ) because it was thought to help people acquire wealth, to encourage savings, and promote civic engagement.

Take Ionescu's enduring admiration and support for countries in the Anglosphere and for the British Empire was reflected in contemporary popular culture.

Relations between Australia and New Zealand, also sometimes referred to as Trans-Tasman relations due to the countries being on opposite sides of the Tasman Sea, are extremely close with both sharing British colonial heritage and being part of the Anglosphere.

Although it reached mainstream success in countries including the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, and Italy, they failed to penetrate the Anglosphere.

The two countries combined make up a huge percentage of world trade, a significant impact of the cultures of many other countries and territories, and are the largest economies and the most populous nodes of the Anglosphere, with a combined population of over 370 million as of 2010.

There is a sizable emigrant Tuluva population in Mumbai, the Middle East, and in several countries of the Anglosphere.

Similarly, horse meat is rarely eaten in the Anglosphere, although it is part of the national cuisine of countries as widespread as Kazakhstan, Japan, and France.

In the Anglosphere, most notably in Anglo-America, autumn is also associated with the Halloween season ( which in turn was influenced by Samhain, a Celtic autumn festival ), and with it a widespread marketing campaign that promotes it, in the U. S. A.

The book distinguishes three Great Phyles: the Han ( consisting of Han Chinese ), the Neo-Victorian New Atlantis ( consisting largely of Anglo-Saxons, but also accepting Indians, Africans and other members of the Anglosphere who identify with the culture ) and Nippon ( consisting of Japanese ).

Mahathir's relationship with Australia ( the closest country in the Anglosphere to Malaysia, and the one whose foreign policy is most concentrated on the region ), and his relationship with Australia's political leaders, has been particularly rocky.

World languages will tend to have a large body of poetry contributed to by several nations ( Anglosphere, Francophonie, Latin America, German-speaking Europe ), while for smaller languages, the body of poetry in a particular language will be identical to the national poetry of the nation or ethnicity associated with that language.

The history of the South Central states is dominated by the conflict and interaction between three cultural-linguistic groups: the Anglosphere ( first Great Britain and then the United States ), the Hispanidad ( first Spain then Mexico ), and the Francophonie ( always France ).

Since the early 2000s, there have been flourishing Historical European Martial Arts communities in Europe, North America and the wider Anglosphere.

In both the Anglosphere and German-speaking Europe, the word Asatru is widely used interchangeably with other terms for Germanic Neopaganism.

Liking Lewis has long been a common stereotype about the French in the minds of many English-speakers, and is often the object of jokes in Anglosphere pop culture.

Rivalry between Australia and allies such as the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and New Zealand is friendly and jocular in nature, as Australians often view these nations as members of an Anglosphere cultural tradition which has significant overlap with their own.

The structure of university degrees in Spain is quite different from the Anglosphere model.

While apitherapy encompasses use or consumption of bee products, in the Anglosphere the term is most commonly associated with bee venom therapy and not the consumption of honey or other bee products.

Tall poppy syndrome ( TPS ) is a pejorative term primarily used in the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and other Anglosphere nations to describe a social phenomenon in which people of genuine merit are resented, attacked, cut down, or criticised because their talents or achievements elevate them above or distinguish them from their peers.

More than one and a half million candidates sit the test each year, which is used by more than 1, 000 universities and colleges in the Anglosphere, including more than 700 institutions in the USA, as a standard entrance requirement.

The term " integrism " is largely restricted to French sociopolital parlance, while the term traditional Catholics has become more prominent in recent times and is generally the most common term used in the Anglosphere to describe anti-modernist elements.

More recently, the city became well known in the Anglosphere because of a May 29, 1993 arson incident, in which two women and three girls died in a fire attack on the house of a Turkish family in Solingen.

These states are sometimes collectively known as the Anglosphere, and are among Britain's closest allies.

The key ideological influence on the Anglosphere branch of the cooperative movement, however, was a rejection of the charity principles that underpinned welfare reforms when the British government radically revised its Poor Laws in 1834.

In general, Pākehā continue to develop identities distinct from and complementary to those of their ( often ) British origins and those of the other Anglosphere nation-states such as Australia, the United States, Canada and Ireland, as well as Māori.

However, those who disagree with the use of the term claim that the economies of the Anglosphere differ as much from each other as they do from continental European economies.

Western Christianity itself was divided by the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century, and pronouncedly " Western " forms of Christianity include Puritanism and Evangelicalism, movements resulting from the various " Great Awakenings " in the 18th to 20th century Anglosphere and popularly practiced in the USA.

In Germany, the terms Asatru and Odinism were borrowed from the Anglosphere in the 1990s, with a chapter of Odinic Rite formed in 1995 and the Eldaring as a partner organization of The Troth formed in 2000.

The name was imported into the Anglosphere during the 1930s.

In the Anglosphere, post-feudal forms of cooperation between workers and owners, that are expressed today as " profit-sharing " and " surplus sharing " arrangements, existed as far back as 1795.

Friendly Societies and consumer cooperatives became the dominant form of organization amongst working people in Anglosphere industrial societies prior to the rise of trade unions and industrial factories.

Examples include the Anglosphere, Arab World, Eurosphere, Francophonie, Françafrique, Germanosphere, Indosphere, Latin Europe / Latin America, Sinosphere, Slavisphere, and many others.

This noted critic of Austria-Hungary became Iorga's admiring friend, and helped popularize his ideas in the Anglosphere.