Newsletter Sign up for our email newsletter for the latest science news. Sign Up. Katie Melua, a real Caucasian. Already a subscriber? Want more? More From Discover. Recommendations From Our Store. Stay Curious. View our privacy policy. Website Accessibility. This article by Susana Rinderle, " 6 Reasons to Not Say 'Caucasian ,'" discusses part of why we have a hard time letting go of the word "Caucasian. It is uncomfortable to consider that an entire group of people can be referred to in a general way, and that is a topic or an idea that is more completely fleshed out in other articles, books, podcasts, and scholarship, so I won't elaborate on it here.
I also want to be clear: If one uses the word Caucasian, that does not say anything about who they are as a person, and it does not make them inherently a racist or a white supremacist. This is not a value judgment. That being said, there is an opportunity for every one of us to commit to antiracist action. It is important to consider the implications and effects of the language we use, and the word Caucasian used indiscriminately when not rooted in historical context or impact does further racist assumptions and obstructs antiracist discourse.
Finally, I want to introduce the concept of "white supremacy" as one that needs to be confronted in medicine in particular and in society as a whole. This definition of "white supremacy culture " from Showing Up for Racial Justice expresses that white supremacy doesn't just refer to believing that White ideas, ideals, culture and values are superior to those of people of color, but also that these values, ideas, culture, and ideals are the "standard" or the "norm.
Showing Up for Racial Justice states, "Culture is powerful precisely because it is so present and at the same time so very difficult to name or identify. The characteristics listed below are damaging because they are used as norms and standards without being proactively named or chosen by the group. They are damaging because they promote white supremacy thinking. They are damaging to both people of color and to White people. Reflecting on the ways that a culture of white supremacy affects our relationships to ourselves, each other, communities, society at large, evidence and research, etc.
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Time to Phase Out "Caucasian". By: John Donovan Updated: Apr 5, Every once in a while, on one of those head-numbingly formulaic police procedurals on TV, you'll hear a description of a suspect that seems pulled right from the s.
It's easy, of course, to equate "Caucasian" with "white. It kindles questions of race and the very origin of humans. It even exposes the topic of whether race exists outside our curious, sometimes devious minds.
Spoiler: In humans, no genetic basis exists to separate our species into races. So if you're thinking the "Caucasian race," think again. The ranges — two of them, the Greater and Lesser — are due east of Italy across the Mediterranean, much of Eastern Europe and the Black Sea , due north of Iraq through a few countries and due west of India through a few countries and across the Caspian.
The southern tip of Russia lies to the north of the Caucasus Mountains. To the immediate south is Georgia, a former Soviet Republic. This is where Caucasians — true Caucasians — call home. People from Georgia, Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia hail from the area. But Caucasians , as first identified by German anthropologist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach and as some still think of the group today, lay claim to a lot more real estate than that. In , in the third edition of his book titled " De generis humani varietate nativa " or, "On the natural varieties of mankind" , Blumenbach, building on work by Swedish scientist Carolus Linnaeus and others, used the word "Caucasian" to describe one of his five races of man.
He determined each through scientific methods like the measuring of skulls, and tied each to distinct geographic regions. Caucasians were, as Blumenbach presented them, the "white" race and included people not only from the Caucasus region, but also those from Europe, northern India and parts of Northern Africa.
The other groups Blumenbach identified, tied loosely to skin color, were Malaysian, Ethiopian, [Native] American and Mongolian. Years after Blumenbach, scientists found that the earliest humans didn't come from the Caucasus but from Africa, in modern day Ethiopia.
Though Blumenbach found that the " many varieties of man as are at present known to [be] one and the same species ," his work nonetheless was seen as giving scientific credence to the concept of biological race. Over the years, that notion has been abused in order to separate groups of people often by skin color and to declare, through some bastardization of science, the superiority of one race over others.
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