Why are White People Called Caucasian?

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Throughout history a variety of ways to scientifically classify different groups of humans have popped up, most notable to the story today being a system suggested by pioneering social scientist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, often considered the “father of scientific anthropology.”

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Sources:

http://www.yale.edu/glc/events/race/Painter.pdf
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=caucasian
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasian_race
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_people
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_Europe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_whiteness_in_the_United_States
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_American
http://mentalfloss.com/article/50202/why-are-white-people-called-caucasian
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasus
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2041/why-do-we-say-caucasian-to-mean-a-person-of-european-ancestry
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/looking-in-the-cultural-mirror/201003/caucasian
https://glc.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/events/race/Painter.pdf
https://www.workforce.com/2014/12/18/6-reasons-not-say-caucasian/
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2008/08/do_white_people_really_come_from_the_caucasus.html
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2011/01/stop-using-the-word-caucasian-to-mean-white/#.W57qR_ZReUk
http://www.sjsu.edu/people/carol.mukhopadhyay/papers/Getting-Rid-of-the-Word-Caucasian.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Friedrich_Blumenbach
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christoph_Meiners

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