Here’s four reasons when we really mean “white.”
1. It’s “highly unlikely” that white people came out of the Caucasus region in Eurasia.
2. In the 18th century, German anthropologist
Friedrich Blumenbach devised a flawed classification system that divided
humans into five races—Caucasian (white), Mongolian (yellow), Malayan
(brown), Ethiopian (black), and American (red). Blumenbach believed that
the Caucasian race was the “most beautiful”
and oldest, ideas that support white supremacy. While Blumenbach’s four
other racial terms are considered obsolete, “Caucasian” has sadly survived.
3. People of Indian descent technically fall under
the category of “Caucasian”, but they aren’t considered white (and have
historically been denied the same rights as white people in Canada and
other countries). The U.S. Supreme Court confirmed the distinction in a 1923 ruling, which denied U.S. citizenship to Indian-American writer Bhagat Singh Thind.
4. Usage of the pseudoscientific term “Caucasian” reinforces the erroneous notion that there is a scientific basis for racial hierarchies.
Read more at: http://www.straight.com/print/blogra/526526/five-reasons-why-we-should-stop-calling-white-people-caucasian
and here: http://mentalfloss.com/article/50202/why-are-white-people-called-caucasian
The Boston bombing suspects are from the actual Caucasus region, meaning they *literally could not be more Caucasian*
