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any idea why americans call white europeans "Caucasians"


when real Caucasians are not even white and more closley related to arabs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasus

this area is of countries like armenia,georgia and all the "stan" countries.

stop calling white europeans Caucasians you idiots

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Why you mad

Signed, million man

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Are you American?

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We say this Europe too 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Also, people from Armenia and Georgia don't look like Arabs at all.

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yes they do. they are closely related to arabs. they are no considerd white

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I remember on police shows of the late 1960s and early 70s they would say "cauc" (sounds like caulk) as in, "the suspect is a male cauc, average height and build"

Nobody says that anymore. It's an obsolete term.

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No, "cauc" sounded like "cock". That's why they stopped saying it.

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From the desk of The Straight Dope!
https://www.straightdope.com/21343181/why-do-we-say-caucasian-to-mean-a-person-of-european-ancestry

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The Straight Dope was awesome! I guess he stopped doing it in 2018.

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This post is 100% incorrect and racist.

Caucasian is a race and Caucasian people are the palest of white(Ireland) to the darkest of night(India).

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Thank you. This is correct. It's just a word used to describe Indo-Europeans.

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I've never used it as such. I do know that British law enforcement have a code that helps identify a person. IC 1=White, Northern European, IC 2=White, Southern European, IC 3=Black, IC 4=Asian (usually South Asian), etc.

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There are some Italians who passed (some more successfully than others) for American Indians in movies, like Iron Eyes Cody and Frank de Kova.

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Yes. Who can forget Iron Eyes Cody?

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It suggests the distinction between Northern and Southern European indicated by the code you cited.

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Who the fuck is Iron Eyes Cody?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0sxwGlTLWw

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Okay. The crying Indian. When I was a kid I lived for awhile in Montana. The white folks there would mock that commercial and complain about how the American Indians left trash everywhere. Lol. Racist of course as was everybody in Montana towards Indians. But ironic.

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