Are all caucasians white?

Question

Are all caucasians white?

Answer 1

Because thats the definition of caucations they are syninms.  Why are all african americans black?

Answer 2

No.  None are white.  Some are off white.  The term when defining races includes lots of different people, including such diverse groups as Arabs, Persians, Swedes, English, and some are pretty dark skinned.  In the US, it usually refers to very light skin.

Answer 3

No! If you talk with people from Sri Lanka they will tell you that they are Caucasian even though their skin is dark. Genetically they are correct. Also, there are white people in all of the other races of people who are not Caucasian. Caucasian means their ancestry comes from the Caucasoid mountains.

Answer 4

I think being Caucasian is your heritage.  It also has something to do with the structure of your skull.  Physical anthropologists can identify the race of a skull by the structure.  However, I think this only applies to full blooded examples.  Generally Caucasians are lighter skinned.  But, I think Mediterraneans would be considered Caucasian and are not always very light skinned.

Answer 5

Some italians and spaniards are tanned. Middle easterns are caucasian also. Many black people are caucasian but are not viewed this way because of skin color. Even if they have many physical caucasian charcteristics.

Theres a skull type called Caucasionoid but it is still just a skull type. Theres other phsyical charcteristsics. Like height. Upperbody length. Leg length, Bone densiity, and bone sructure. Ligaments, muscles, metabolism, resistance to diseases or vulnerbilities to them. Inherited diseases. Many other things.

Answer 6

The Caucasian race, sometimes the Caucasoid race, is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as "relating to a broad division of humankind covering peoples from Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Central Asia, and South Asia" or "white-skinned; of European origin" or "relating to the region of the Caucasus in southeast Europe". The concept's existence is based on the now disputed typological method of racial classification.

In Europe, especially in Russia and nearby, Caucasian usually describes exclusively people who are from the Caucasus region or speak the Caucasian languages.

In the United States, Caucasian has been mainly a distinction, based on skin color, for a group commonly called White Americans, as defined by the government and Census Bureau.

The Supreme Court in United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind (1923) decided Indians were not Caucasian, because most common people did not consider them to be Caucasian.

Answer 7

Caucasian is sort of a pase term no longer really used in academic circles.  But, it refers to people from the region around the Caucus mountains.  These people are now referred to as Proto-Indo-European (PIE).  They spread quickly from this region on the steppes as far south east as India and throughout Europe due to superior technology (like the chariot and metal working) as well as advancements in agriculture.  The expansion has been traced mostly on linguistic lines but also through art, armor, weapons, pottery, etc.   The looks and skin color of the original people is unknown but was likely of a light complexion.  

Skin color is in response to production of vitamin D and not in response to sun expose as is often stated here.  It is true that the skin absorbs UV radiation and produces vitamin D.  It is also true that vitamin D is fat soluble and you can build up a dangerous excess.  So in general the light skin people in low sun areas and dark skin people in high sun areas are correct but there are exceptions.  Inuit live in the arctic and have dark skin because of the high level of fish in their diet (fish being an excellent source of vitamin D).  Similar situations occurred in the British Isles before Roman times.  

To answer your question directly, no!  'Caucasians' such as Indians, Italians, and some other groups that no longer exist have much darker complexions but would have been classified as 'Caucasian' and are now seen as descendants of PIE people.

Answer 8

I'm sort of a pinkish-olive.

My nephew IS white, but he's an albino.

Answer 9

No.  I'm guilty of frequently appling the "N" word to them because of their illicit activity display and breach of cultural norms.  It is as if these caucasians need to drag or push

others into a universe I've never plumbed.  I won't go gently.

Answer 10

No they are more of a shade of pink.

Answer 11

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