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Stop saying Caucasian to mean white lol besides the fact that it’s literally not correct to use them synonymously, it’s 2016. just say white. It’s not offensive, Caucasian is not the “more appropriate ‘pc’ way of saying white” and it’s not what you actually mean to say. Say white in 2016
I’m in a master’s program at an HBCU and SO many people were using Caucasian in place of white in their papers that my policy professor sent out a mass email including a map of the Caucasus region and a full explanation of how to correctly use the term Caucasian.
can someone explain the difference? as a white person I do not ever think about my own race
The term Caucasian comes from the Caucasus mountains!
As you can see, it’s sitting nice and tight between the Black and Caspian sea, and it’s chalk-full of all kinds of countries which contain people that are not the same as European white people, although in some countries they might benefit from passing white.
Anyway, the people that live here are actually people that have a cultural and ethnic identity - Hellenic, Armenian, Iranian. For example, Ossetian people
Or people from the region of Crimea, which some people might recognize from recent political coverage.
So, you might be asking “well, why do we say Caucasian when we really mean West-european descendants?”
There’s an answer! This was an old carryover from the taxonomy if the Olden Days when the races were divided into “Caucasoid, Mongoloid, Negroid” races. We have since stepped away from this classification in anthropological studies, but the Caucasian term remains in use for some frustrating reason.
The issue, however, is that it’s simply not logical to use it for yourself unless you are literally a descendant of one of the caucasus peoples. If you’re European, and want to emphasize that point, say European! Heck, you can even say “Nordic” if you are particularly proud of that part of your heritage and you happen to come from a Nordic country, or “Slavic” if you happen to come from a Slavic country.
except that white people didn’t immigrate into the united states… they funded the united states. you can’t illegally immigrate into a society you created.
did you actually just say white people created society in america
That commenter who accidentally typed “funded” rather than “founded” has probably never said anything more accurate in their life.
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