Re: CHAT: American Racism [was: Star Wars]

Surely "Caucasian" is a euphemism for "white," by means of the theory
that whites are "aryan" and aryans come from the Caucasus.  Silliness;
complete silliness.


Ed Heil -------------------------------- edheil@postmark.net

Brian Betty wrote:

> "BTW: wonder what the US authorities would say of a
> Ukraino-Khazaro-Polono-Saxo-Vasco-Norvago-Gotho-Scandinavian (me)?"
>
> 'Caucasian.' Kind of robs you of your family history, too, eh? I mean, my
> father is from a Dublin (Scots) Irish family and my mother's father is said
> mixture of Cherokee and unnamed African stocks, and my mother's mother, who
> is allegedly 'German,' is in fact of Pecheneg (Turkic) and German & Slav
> origins. So she is simply 'Caucasian!'
>
> BB
>
> *********
> Tomboy: "a wench that skippeth as a boy."
> - Richard Verstegen, 1605
>
> "Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."
> - H.G. Wells
>