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I mean European look like Arabs...what does Caucasian mean? From an African perspective it's an empty word...Europeans look like Arabs from an African perspective....
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From an African perspective, what does Caucasinan mean?
Re - "Caucasian": It means nothing from an intellectual perspective, other than reference to those from within the vicinity of Caucasus. There is no reason to assume that the African perspective differs from that intellectual perspective.
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quote:Originally posted by Ausarian.: From an African perspective, what does Caucasinan mean?
Re - "Caucasian": It means nothing from an intellectual perspective, other than reference to those from within the vicinity of Caucasus. There is no reason to assume that the African perspective differs from that intellectual perspective.
Would note that the term has a proper use and improper use. [like most terms.]
Properly....
*Non-Indo-European*, languages and peoples of the Caucasia, a region between the Black and Caspian seas that includes southwest Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia.
Improperly...
A pseudo-scientific racial division in anthropology invented by Johanne Blumenbach in the late 1700s.
^ Prior to this there is no *caucasian* race, and no conception of Indo-Europeans such as Germans, Italians, English or French of being 'caucasians', which is as much a misnomer as to refer to them as Russians.
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