Im confuzed about caucasian race?

Question

okay so white people are called caucasians but are not from the caucauses region (georgia,anatolia,azerbajan)

so why are for example italian americans called caucasian... is that incorrect since they are not from the caucases? thanks

Answer 1

It was once believed that the white race originated in the Caucasus region. That notion was abandoned long ago but the term stuck.

Italians, like the Greeks , are of the "Mediterranean" sub-category of the Caucasoid race.

Caucasians include all the peoples of Europe along with most of the peoples of the Middle East, North Africa & West Asia. (Race is actually determined by craniofacial anthropometry, not by skin color.)

The other two distinct races are *******, which are those from sub-Saharan Africa & Mongoloid, which are those from East Asia, such as the Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, etc.

Answer 2

In addition to what the first guy said, Cro-Magnon were believed to have migrated westward from the Black Sea region, which was a freshwater lake 40,000 years ago...

They came from places like the Ukraine, modern-day Turkey, the Caucasus mountains, Bulgaria, Northern Greece and Romania. In Eastern Europe they encountered Neanderthals, and presumably had successful matings, as at least 5 Hybrid skeletons have been found...

10,000 years ago they migrated to Northern Africa, having lightened their skin color sufficiently, due to different climatic and environmental conditions, to become noticeably distinct from the ******* "race"...

Answer 3

At the moment there is only one specific race - human beings. It is now impossible to generalise and group the human race into different races.