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Originally Posted by Csihar
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You are right that 'white people' does not include 'brown people'. Quite an odd thing to say though.
You are not right about the definition of 'Caucasian' though and definitely not about it 'always been...'.
Even the term 'Caucasian' used for people from the Caucasus region is older.
The term 'Caucasian' is misused in colloquial American English.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasian_race
The Caucasian race (also Caucasoid[1] or Europid[2]) is a grouping of human beings historically regarded as a biological taxon, including some or all of the populations of Europe, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, Western Asia, Central Asia and South Asia. |
Yes, all people once lived in and around the "fertile crescent" and yes, among them were caucasians. While its no surprise places like wikipedia are scrubbing light skinned from the definition, most dictionaries still include it. That new knowledge and re-education at work.
Important to note is caucasian or caucasoid is one of 3 major races, the other two being mongoloid and negroid. Indians (both asiatic and murican) are mongoloids.