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<blockquote data-quote="Old Man Jingles" data-source="post: 4113192" data-attributes="member: 18222">OK ... I agree with that and also include Asian Indian and Afghans!In today&#039;s PC world Caucasian usually means from European descent.The terminology &#039;Caucasian&#039; comes from the people who originated in and north of the Caucusus Mountains.<a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2011/01/stop-using-the-word-caucasian-to-mean-white/#.XRe7DOhKiUk" target="_blank">White versus Caucasian Versus Caucasoid</a>Caucasian, literally, refers to people native to the Caucasus, but it has become interchangeable with any number of ‘White’ populations, most of whom trace their ancestry to Europe.One gets the feeling that the term ‘White’ fell out of favor and was replaced by ‘Caucasian’ much like ‘Black’ was replaced by ‘Afro-American’.While the older classical physical anthropology terms like “Negroid” and “Caucasoid” fell into disuse after 1960, as you’d expect, “Caucasian” went through a renaissance in the 1990s. I think RPM’s supposition is probably correct, people wanted a pretentious term somewhat less coarse than white, and since most people are geography-challenged, “Caucasian” sounds good if you want to pose as the faux-sophisticate.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Old Man Jingles, post: 4113192, member: 18222"] OK ... I agree with that and also include Asian Indian and Afghans! In today's PC world Caucasian usually means from European descent. The terminology 'Caucasian' comes from the people who originated in and north of the Caucusus Mountains. [B][URL='http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2011/01/stop-using-the-word-caucasian-to-mean-white/#.XRe7DOhKiUk']White versus Caucasian Versus Caucasoid[/URL][/B] [I]Caucasian, literally, refers to people native to the Caucasus, but it has become interchangeable with any number of ‘White’ populations, most of whom trace their ancestry to Europe. One gets the feeling that the term ‘White’ fell out of favor and was replaced by ‘Caucasian’ much like ‘Black’ was replaced by ‘Afro-American’. While the older classical physical anthropology terms like “Negroid” and “Caucasoid” fell into disuse after 1960, as you’d expect, “Caucasian” went through a renaissance in the 1990s. I think RPM’s supposition is probably correct, people wanted a pretentious term somewhat less coarse than white, and since most people are geography-challenged, “Caucasian” sounds good if you want to pose as the [I]faux[/I]-sophisticate.[/I] [/QUOTE]

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