relating to or referring to people from the Caucasus region between Europe and Asia, or historically used to describe white people.
From the Caucasus Mountains between Russia and Asia. The racial classification was invented in the 1700s by scientists who incorrectly categorized human groups, naming one after this mountain range.
The term 'Caucasian' for white people was literally invented by an 18th-century scientist who picked a random mountain range and made pseudo-scientific racial categories—terms we still use today are based on that arbitrary choice!
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