Shooting Spree at Munich Mall: 10 Dead, Shooter German-Iranian

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barneystinson69 said:

COKTOE said:

That's legitimately interesting, and I tip my hat to your knowledge, however, in North America, Caucasian means white, does it not? Ask almost anybody you know, or don't know what it means to them. Any poll asking people to verbally describe Caucasian, or say pick a Caucasian from a group of photographs would produce results that would verify this claim. It's meaning has been clearly redefined on this continent. Still ,I again have to compliment, and thank you for teaching on teaching me something new.

Well according to the US census, Middle easterns are considered white legally. Whether or not they're socially considered white, well that's a different story. Me being 1/2 persian, most people still do consider me white here in Canada. Maybe because I'm 1/2 European as well, I don't know. But anyway the legal definition for a White person in America is a person of "European, Middle eastern, or North African descent": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Americans

And maybe I should do a poll sometime. I'd be surprised to know just how many people actually know the difference.

Wow I'm really surprised someone else knows the actual original definition of Caucasian. I didn't know it until the beginning of the year where I watched a documentary on it that went over the history of caucasia and how the definition was changed by slave masters in America because they feared the 99% of working class whites and blacks may join forces and overthrow them. 

 

By redefining Caucasian (at the time there was a popular belief that Caucasians are the most beautiful and intellectual people) to "white," the slave masters essentially created a divide amongst the working class white and blacks and got them to fight each other.