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Originally Posted by LeftCoaster
So today, as a white Canadian, I am not a Caucasian? Odd.
Caucasian means your genetic make up is traceable back to the area of the Caucasus mountains, and whatever incorrect context it is used in today is inconsequential. I am a Caucasian, an Arab is a Caucasian, a Russian is a Caucasian, A Persian is Caucasian, an Argentinian of Portuguese descent is a Caucasian... I think you get the point. Pretty much if you are not black, Asian or Aboriginal you are of Caucasian descent.
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That pretty much describes it. From an anthropology perspective, the human skeleton falls into three cataegories:
Caucasoid - self explanatory
Negroid - Self explanatory
Mongoloid - this covers what would commonly be referred to as "Asian" and interestingly, North American Aboriginal.