Has ‘Caucasian’ Lost Its Meaning?
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AS a racial classification, the term Caucasian has many flaws, dating as it does from a time when the study of race was based on skull measurements and travel diaries. It has long been entirely unmoored from its geographical reference point, the Caucasus region. Its equivalents from that era are obsolete — nobody refers to Asians as “Mongolian” or blacks as “Negroid.”
The use of Caucasian to mean white was popularized in the late 18th century by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, a German anthropologist, who decreed that it encompassed Europeans and the inhabitants of a region reaching from the Obi River in Russia to the Ganges to the Caspian Sea, plus northern Africans. He chose it because the Caucasus was home to “the most beautiful race of men, I mean the Georgians,” and because among his collection of 245 human skulls, the Georgian one was his favorite wrote Nell Irvin Painter, a historian who explored the term’s origins in her book “The History of White People.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/07/sunday-review/has-caucasian-lost-its-meaning.html?_r=0
The use of Caucasian to mean white was popularized in the late 18th century by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, a German anthropologist, who decreed that it encompassed Europeans and the inhabitants of a region reaching from the Obi River in Russia to the Ganges to the Caspian Sea, plus northern Africans. He chose it because the Caucasus was home to “the most beautiful race of men, I mean the Georgians,” and because among his collection of 245 human skulls, the Georgian one was his favorite wrote Nell Irvin Painter, a historian who explored the term’s origins in her book “The History of White People.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/07/sunday-review/has-caucasian-lost-its-meaning.html?_r=0
Has ‘Caucasian’ Lost Its Meaning? 16 votes
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I really don't think about ? like that..a ? is a ? until proven otherwise
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Crepy-ass-? >>>>>>>I don't really give a ? about this.
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Crepy-ass-? >>>>>>>I don't know about meaning... but they lost their souls along time ago...if they ever had any
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Caucasian is a good description.....i refer to asians as mongols and blaccs as negroids
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Crepy-ass-? >>>>>>>Honestly, if all those people were lined up next to each other I could only see two colors. White and really white.
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Crepy-ass-? >>>>>>>? is just fine i suppose.
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Crepy-ass-? >>>>>>>I don't know about meaning... but they lost their souls along time ago...if they ever had any
I'm sick B, I got a hole in my heart.
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If u look white, you're white to me.
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Crepy-ass-? >>>>>>>no...caucasian has alot of meanings
lets see....
cumdrop
kebler
toenail clippin
mayo twin
birdshit
foamy
wonder bread
cave dweller
snowflake
vanilla ?
pink toes
i have more but i have work to do -
Crepy-ass-? >>>>>>>I've been called a ? since middle school, it'd be weird if someone changed it up now.
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Crepy-ass-? >>>>>>>I don't know about meaning... but they lost their souls along time ago...if they ever had any
We already know they have no souls lets not kid ourselves here -
Crepy-ass-? >>>>>>>
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Whiteness is becoming less important.
What's becoming more important is that you're not black. All non-blacks are becoming the same. -
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AS a racial classification, the term Caucasian has many flaws, dating as it does from a time when the study of race was based on skull measurements and travel diaries. It has long been entirely unmoored from its geographical reference point, the Caucasus region. Its equivalents from that era are obsolete — nobody refers to Asians as “Mongolian” or blacks as “Negroid.”
The use of Caucasian to mean white was popularized in the late 18th century by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, a German anthropologist, who decreed that it encompassed Europeans and the inhabitants of a region reaching from the Obi River in Russia to the Ganges to the Caspian Sea, plus northern Africans. He chose it because the Caucasus was home to “the most beautiful race of men, I mean the Georgians,” and because among his collection of 245 human skulls, the Georgian one was his favorite wrote Nell Irvin Painter, a historian who explored the term’s origins in her book“The History of White People.”
http://community.allhiphop.com/discussion/474806/has-anyone-read-history-of-white-people/p1
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Caucasian is a good description.....i like the term...what do they mean north Africa
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Crepy-ass-? >>>>>>>Ajackson17 wrote: »AS a racial classification, the term Caucasian has many flaws, dating as it does from a time when the study of race was based on skull measurements and travel diaries. It has long been entirely unmoored from its geographical reference point, the Caucasus region. Its equivalents from that era are obsolete — nobody refers to Asians as “Mongolian” or blacks as “Negroid.”
The use of Caucasian to mean white was popularized in the late 18th century by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, a German anthropologist, who decreed that it encompassed Europeans and the inhabitants of a region reaching from the Obi River in Russia to the Ganges to the Caspian Sea, plus northern Africans. He chose it because the Caucasus was home to “the most beautiful race of men, I mean the Georgians,” and because among his collection of 245 human skulls, the Georgian one was his favorite wrote Nell Irvin Painter, a historian who explored the term’s origins in her book“The History of White People.”
http://community.allhiphop.com/discussion/474806/has-anyone-read-history-of-white-people/p1
Remember this thread?!!!!
Yea.....
I dropped a pdf to the book in there..........
This article was posted on Sunday in the NYT.............
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Caucasian is a good description.....
barbarian simply means non greek speaking in ancient times -
Ajackson17 wrote: »AS a racial classification, the term Caucasian has many flaws, dating as it does from a time when the study of race was based on skull measurements and travel diaries. It has long been entirely unmoored from its geographical reference point, the Caucasus region. Its equivalents from that era are obsolete — nobody refers to Asians as “Mongolian” or blacks as “Negroid.”
The use of Caucasian to mean white was popularized in the late 18th century by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, a German anthropologist, who decreed that it encompassed Europeans and the inhabitants of a region reaching from the Obi River in Russia to the Ganges to the Caspian Sea, plus northern Africans. He chose it because the Caucasus was home to “the most beautiful race of men, I mean the Georgians,” and because among his collection of 245 human skulls, the Georgian one was his favorite wrote Nell Irvin Painter, a historian who explored the term’s origins in her book“The History of White People.”
http://community.allhiphop.com/discussion/474806/has-anyone-read-history-of-white-people/p1
Remember this thread?!!!!
Yea.....
I dropped a pdf to the book in there..........
This article was posted on Sunday in the NYT.............
Okay, ethered. Damn, it took that long for that book to get that much exposure ? . They really don't want to hear the truth. I had to deal with that saturday and sunday with the huge amount of denial. Not saying YOU are a bad person, but we ain't as bad as you think we are and YOUR people aren't nowhere near an angelic people and closer to something you want to disassociate yourself with and want to associate us with. -
Crepy-ass-? >>>>>>>
barbarian simply means non greek speaking in ancient times
Greeks used it for the people of different cultures but also to deride other Greek tribes and states.........
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Caucasian is a good description.....
yep i read somewhere that greeks couldnt understand these other cultures and tribes and to them the language sounded like barbarbarbar hence the name -
damn I didn't realize there was all those kinds of different shades of white, and im white.
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Yeah, I knew about barbarian meaning. It was kinda of hilarious and intellectually lazy on the greeks part.
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Crepy-ass-? >>>>>>>
yep i read somewhere that greeks couldnt understand these other cultures and tribes and to them the language sounded like barbarbarbar hence the name
mid-14c., from Medieval Latin barbarinus (source of Old French barbarin "Berber, pagan, Saracen, barbarian"), from Latin barbaria "foreign country," from Greek barbaros "foreign, strange, ignorant," from PIE root *barbar- echoic of unintelligible speech of foreigners (cf. Sanskrit barbara- "stammering," also "non-? ," Latin balbus "stammering," Czech blblati "to stammer").
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Crepy-ass-? >>>>>>>Savage ass barbarians