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Origins of "Caucasian"
by dfs
I think that the "Explainer" needs to brush up on his facts a wee bit. Threre is a theory that has been held by some but not all historic linguists that the region of the Caucasus was the original homeland of the speakers of the Indo-European linguistic family that expanded eastward into Anatolia and India and westward into Europe. Some people leapt to the conclusion that all the speakers of this language family must belong to a single race (the Nazi's Aryans) which is, to put it mildly, undemonstrable. Some folks have also permitted themselves the further assumption that Indo-European speakers = all white people, which is equally wrong (Basques, for example, are white people, but their language is not Indo-European). The term "Caucasian" is a product of these misconceptions.
Re: Origins of "Caucasian"
by irvingchang

'Threre is a theory that has been held by some but not all historic linguists that the region of the Caucasus was the original homeland of the speakers of the Indo-European linguistic family that expanded eastward into Anatolia and India and westward into Europe.'

that's what i thought. for example pater (father) means the same in the indian groups as it does the romantics.

Re: Origins of "Caucasian"
by janna1g
Neither are Finnish nor Hungarian Indo-European. Th
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