| S.T.A.G.E. said: Everyone was the same in Africa..Whites became white and evolved around the caucasus mountain area, hence the term Caucasian |
LMAO. Sorry, but that was really funny to me.
No, that's not what happened. The guy who coined the racial group Caucasian was an 18th century philosopher, not a scientist, and he just assumed that because he found the people of the Caucasus to be very attractive and archetypical they must have been the originals. After that the name Caucasian simply stuck. Of course the term "white" is relative and has meant different things at different times to different people, but DNA testing has shown that Mediterranean type North Africans are a very old, fairly consistent population who did not migrate to the Caucasus to get some of this new fangled white skin hotness and then come back again. And Caucasian, as it is understood today, includes non-whites like Somalis and Ethiopians.
