I know the Caucasus region is between Europe and Asia, So can we call any white person Caucasian regardless where he/she came from?
2006-07-22 14:52:30 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Anthropology
There are, biologically speaking, but three races on this planet: the *******, the Caucasoid, and the Mongoloid. If you are neither black nor Asian, you are Caucasian. Indians are Caucasian. Arabs and Turks are Caucasian. I am Caucasian.
This does not necessarily mean that they think of themselves as white, or that others consider them "white". Merely that they are.
Similarly, the Arabs are a Semitic race, and just about the most anti-Semitic people you'd ever want to meet.
2006-07-22 16:28:41 · answer #1 · answered by Happy 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The term Caucasian race, Caucasian or Caucasoid is used to refer to people whose ancestry can be traced back to Europe, North Africa, West Asia, Indian subcontinent and parts of Central Asia
That means aside from Nordic/Anglo/Saxons Blondes and BLue eyes Europeans , Mediteranean race such as Jews, Arabs, Maltese, Sicilians are also considered Caucasians. Provided they dont have Afro Blood or not of Afro African descent. Sin from White to Brown,
According to the U.S. Census defintion however, North African and Middle Easterners are classified as White. U.S. federal agencies group all Middle Easterners and North Africans as White. EEOC regulations explicitly define White as "peoples of Europe, North Africa, or the Middle East," and the Census Bureau's decennial form offers no check-box for such a self-identity under the "race" question.
2006-07-25 17:54:23 · answer #2 · answered by MrMoon 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, I think that's a retarded term. I also don't understand why Hispanic Americans of Spanish descent (not from Latin America) are any different than other European Americans. Races are silly things to classify anyway. It shouldn't matter whether you're African American or Caucasian or Hispanic or anything else. But the second you try to say you're against Affirmative Action, people start looking at you like you announced you went to a KKK lynching last night.
2006-07-23 15:56:06 · answer #3 · answered by tertiahibernica 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The term "Caucasian" means "of or relating to the Caucasus Mountains". All white people on earth descend from a single race of Caucasians - also known as Aryans or Proto-Indo-Europeans - who roughly 10,000 years ago inhabited the area from the Crimea to northern Iran. They spread across all of Europe and Asia, taking their language along with them, and most languages from Iceland to India are distantly related to their language, and the speakers therein are biologically related to them as well. So technically "Caucasian" could refer to Indians as well, but it is standardly used in reference to white skinned people.
2006-07-23 15:22:47 · answer #4 · answered by illuminatiscott 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Most probably, if it matters. Actually people from India the country are caucasions even though their skin tones can be very dark. The defining characteristics are based on bone structures and facial features. Of course those persons considered of the ******* race are the oldest, then asiatics, then caucasions. All three's distinguishing characterizations were developed due to different climatic conditions. And all three actually have a common ancestor who originated in Africa.
2006-07-22 15:12:14 · answer #5 · answered by Unknown Oscillator 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
in case you have been born in Mexico then you quite are Mexican. If being Mexican ability which you're Hispanic, then you quite are Hispanic. there is not any opinion available. Open your strategies somewhat. Being Hispanic does no longer advise which you have black hair, brown eyes, and brown epidermis. Being Hispanic is your heritage. you need to no longer be afraid to fill out Hispanic on an utility. you're Hispanic with the aid of fact you're Mexican. elementary and easy. Now there are dark Mexicans and mild-weight Mexicans. yet they're all Hispanic. i'm Belizean, My mom is mild and my father is dark. Belize is technically a rustic in Latin u . s . a . of america. So i'm technically Latino or Hispanic. you need to keep in mind, that the be conscious white on an utility ability "white American of eu descents" Black ability "black American of African decedents or African".
2016-10-08 05:24:32 · answer #6 · answered by catherine 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes
2006-07-22 15:49:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
YES. I BELIEVE THE INDIA PEOPLE ARE CAUCASOID.
HISPANIC ARE CAUCASOID. GREEKS ARE. RUSSIANS ARE. JEWS, AND PALESTINIANS ARE.
THERE ARE THREE RACES. CAUCASOID, *******, AND MONGOLOID.
2006-07-27 05:38:51 · answer #8 · answered by thewordofgodisjesus 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
we are all so mixed up going way back- we are mutts
2006-07-23 12:58:11 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
you cant be caucasian unless you are blond and have blue eyes
2006-07-22 15:11:58 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 5⤋