where did the word caucasian come from?
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When some of the ten tribes migrated across the caucasus mountains into Europe.\n\nSaxons came from Isaacs sons, I-saacs sons, saacs sons, saxons.
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its from the greek word Genea meaning "generation,race"
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It came from Tarzan movies and TV shows...that's where your dad more than likely got it from.  As to whether it's a real word, I cannot say, but if it is, I'd guess Swahili
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French colonies in Africa. \nNo, Europeans aren't supposed to be Caucasian. I don't know where you heard that from?
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USA .. Caucasian... part American Indian, Scottish, German that I know of ... basically your general American mutt.
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I have known Belinda's who were of all different races here in America.  I don't think it is strictly a Caucasian name.
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classifying human beings in races is stupid and not scientific. the three main groups of negro, caucasian and mongoloids were used by anthropologists anciently but have no longer any scientific value. some countries adopt them as a form of description of their citizens but its not correct to talk about "races". in fact a central european, looking "caucasian", might have a greater genetic affinity (similar DNA) with a black african that, say, with another central european of celtic origin. this even if the looks would suggest the opposite. \nanyways, following the classification u suggest, australian aborigenes, together with melanesians, would be classified as "negro", maoris as "mongoloid", and polynesians as "caucasian"...this shows how bad  and wrong the classification is.
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It originated from Persia. Originally the name was pronounced 'Ba-su-lee' and was the Persian word for 'Interpreter'. A family of Persians devoted their lives to the art of interpretation, and spent their time learning languages and appying their knowledge for the use of Kings and Queens. Eventually they were just called 'Ba-su-lee', and it became a family name.\n\nDuring the Persian Wars of 800 BC, many of the Ba-su-lee family were considered traitors due to their knowledge of other nations languages, and most were executed. Some escaped to the north and west, and settled in European areas where they intermingled with the locals. Eventually the families migrated mostly north, and into England. The Persian Ba-su-lee family eventually died out, as the name was associated with being a traitor, and the southern European Ba-su-lee's married into other family names.\n\nThe England Ba-su-lee's, however, kept their heritage and names, changing it to 'Bosley' sometime around 1400 AD. Eventually they became a major family group in that area.
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georgia is the Greek word for agriculture \n(pronounced gheorghia)tone goes in i
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there is only one race the human race and we are losing! white is actually considered the Caucasians race.
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The word Negro stems from the Spanish word Negro, meaning black. In English, negro or neger became negar and finally nigger, most likely under influence of French nègre. Neger (sometimes spelled "neggar") prevailed in northern New York under the Dutch and also in Philadelphia, in its Moravian and Pennsylvania Dutch communities. For example, the New York City African Burial Ground was originally known as "Begraaf Plaats van de Neger.\n\n"Nigger is an extremely derogatory term used for black people. During the period when slavery was practiced worldwide, and in particular by the United States and European countries, and for several decades after Europe and North America prohibited slavery, it was a standard, casual English term for black people. The word traditionally has been associated with an often casual contempt, a racist assumption of black inherent inferiority, even of bestiality, making it extremely pejorative. In the last 100 years it has also become a friendly and jocular term, used self referentially, among some black people.
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British racial term originating in the colonial period of the British Empire. It was generally used as a label for the natives of India, North Africa and the Middle East. By the 1950s it had become a pejorative term used in order to offend.\n\nThe origins of the term are unclear. Most dictionaries say "wog" either possibly or likely derives from the generic term golliwog after the Golliwogg, a "grotesque" blackface minstrel doll-character from a children's book published in 1895. Various facetious explanations include the claim that it originated from acronyms for "Westernized/Worthy/Wily Oriental Gentleman" or variants thereof, or for "Workers of Government" or "Wards of Government", used to refer to early immigrants into the United Kingdom. Such attempts to explain the word's origin are apocryphal at best.
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Negro means "black" in the Spanish, Portuguese and ancient Italian languages, being derived from the Latin word niger of the same meaning. Prior to the 1970s, it was the dominant term for African Americans; in the great majority of English-language contexts (except, depending on interpretation, its inclusion in the names of organisations founded when the term had currency), it is now considered either archaic or a slur.
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It doesn't make sense to say the oldest person found was "caucasoid" because racial differences didn't start to appear before people migrated to different continents. The colour of the skin of the oldest humans I doubt if scientists could ever determine because all they have is bones. I really don't see why it matters what colour their skin was. Probably dark because they had to survive in the hot sun. There is absolutely no dispute that humans began in Africa.
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i am caucasian\ni am a christian\ni am a man\nwrite me!
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These words come from different root languages and time periods. Check out this Wikipedia link:
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Semitic is a linguistic term referring to a subdivision of largely Middle Eastern Afro-Asiatic languages, the Semitic languages, as well as their speakers' corresponding cultures, and ethnicities. Although there is much debate about the scope of the word's "racial" use in the context of population genetics and history, as a linguistic term the language family is well-defined to include ancient and modern versions of Amharic, Arabic, Aramaic, Akkadian, Hebrew, Maltese, Syriac, Tigrinya, etc.