I understand your frustration. I knew this and never confused "White with "Causcasians" but I am very interested in cultures around the world. I am in my 30's 🙂 Americans are really bad with geography in general
mOsT aMeRiCaNs...over generalized speech about any group is bigoted and intellectually dishonest. Are there Americans who don't care about geography? Sure. However, according to US Census data only about 35% of US adults have a high school diploma or less. Don't forget, the world sends it's children to the US for college degrees because we have quite a few of the best colleges in the world. It's inappropriate to watch a 3 minute hyper edited clip of those few undereducated adults, or kids who are still in high school failing simple math and geography questions and attribute those failures to "most Americans."
@@romarose A fair amount. I am almost 50 and live in the USA myself. I know a lot of people over age 60. I enjoy geography but most people in the USA I talk to aren't interested. Whether they are older or younger than me.
I really wish i'd known about this sooner! Growing up, i always heard people use the word "caucasian" when talking about white people. It confused me as a kid because i didnt know the origin of the word and kind of just accepted it as a synonym for white, because that's what i constantly saw people do. It was only recently that i found the caucasus mountains even existed and learned that caucasian does not infact mean white. I learned this from Florian's videos which really goes to show how important it is to educate people on these matters
Same I am so glad we live in an age where this knowledge is easily available. I am greatful for people like Florian who make videos educating people on places and cultures we don't tend to learn about in school
Yeah, when you're a child you just tend to accept as "normal" what you are exposed to on a daily basis by your family and the wider community, it's not until you grow up that you gain a broader understanding of human history and diversity
@@Cindy99765 Canada as well so I'd say North America! This is new information to me (I grew up hearing them used interchangeably as well) and I'm so grateful for people like Florian to help bridge the education gap!
Thank you👏🏻👏🏻!!!!! I’m North Ossetian (from Caucasus) and this whole thing is just so funny to me. I remember back when I was in school our English teacher told us that the word ‘Caucasian’ in the west is used as the word for ‘white person’, I was like “yeah… right😂”. I didn’t believe her at first, but my mind was blown away when I actually realized that it’s true. Like here in Russia we aren’t considered ‘white’ and usually have to face different forms of discrimination. So yeah the irony is real😅
@denisebond1319 well yes but actually no. We arent just Germanic, like the Russians we're kind of the Mutts of our end of the continent. Theres some Norse, Anglo Saxon, French and the celts. Throw all that in a pot give it a few hundred years after the fall of Rome and poof The English.
According to johann Blumenbach, a German Anthropologist, the man who created the word Caucasian in 1775 the person who you are referring to is a Caucasian. According to him there are 5 races, the Caucasian, Mongolian, Malayan, American and Ethiopian. He visited Georgia and thought that the people from that area were the most beautiful people of the world therefor mankind must have originated from that area. He considered people from Europe, East Asia, the Middle East, India, North Africa as Caucasian. You can have a light skinned to brown skinned Caucasian according to Johann. Check the Caucasian map of the world.
"White" people are very genetically similar, thus yes, putting them as a race is ok. However what is NOT ok is saying all white people have the same culture.
That's right. I'm from Finland and it was quite weird for me to mark the Caucasian part of the form required to land in Australia. I know what Caucasus is and a fair bit about it. I have a thin lineage from there. My grand grandmother was the last one to somewhat hold on the culture. She was 2nd or 3rd generation. I attended her funeral in 2008.
as a circassian (northern caucasus, southern russia) THANK YOU!!! FINALLY someone's talking about it! it's also ironic that in russia we're considered to be people of color and are discriminated against :)
@@kylezdancewicz7346 Relations between the Russian occupiers have always been the worst, and in past times when many children and women were slaughtered, but even now there is the strongest discrimination in the entire Caucasus.
You are right. There are greater variants within a given “race” than there are dividing the “races”. This means RACE is an illusion. Many in America use it to keep and gain power, period.
We don't have really close ties to asian culture. We (georgians) have our own language(non Indo-European), unique alphabet, clothes, building etc. North Caucasians have the same, but without alphabet(and they don't use asian letters, they use Cyrillic). Talking about Azerbaijani and Armenians, they are located in Caucasus region but they mostly don't call themselves Caucasians. Of course, we have some elements of neighbours culture, but we can't be part of them. Anyway video is good, I liked it ❤
ყველა წინადადებაში შეცდომა დაუშვეს. ბლუმენბახი გერმანიაში ცხოვრებაშვე ყველაზე დაფასებული მეცნიერი იყო და ახლაც ძალიან დიდ პატივს სცემენ. განგებ ცდილობენ დუდად წარმოაჩინონ
@@Georgian1121maybe you are right, I'm not really deep into this theory right now, but I will study Blumenbach's work one day, and I read something like this theory in Zviad's lecture, I want to read his works as well.
As a white person, THANK YOU!!!! Finally someone who knows the difference! I’m tired of people lumping all of us together when there are differences and it’s disrespectful to actual Caucasians. Edit: I did not mean to start an argument in the replies and I’m sorry to the caucasians for assuming how you all felt.
So when discussing race it’s better to refer to people of European descent as “White” instead of associating all of them with people of the Caucasus region. Make sure to check out Kahlil Greene’s page, he makes a lot of really interesting history videos as well, I hoped y’all enjoyed this little collab and if you learned something new make sure to follow us! Kahlil’s page: instagram.com/kahlil.greene?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ== youtube.com/@genzhistorian
I just found out today that I'm actually a direct descendant of the actual Caucasian people even though my family has lived in India (and now Pakistan) for pretty much ever. It's fascinating because my ancestors basically had the exact opposite migration route as the Romani people.
It was once incorrectly thought that Caucasus people were a ‘lost tribe’ of Europeans. Genetic studies have shown that Caucasus people are their own unique tribes that are quite genetically distant from Europeans and closer to Turkish people. Caucasus people are different genetically, linguistically and culturally to Europeans and should not be thought of as just ‘a lost tribe’ of Europeans living near Iran, because all evidence proves this to be false.
About Johann Friedrich Blumenbach vs racism: "He did not consider his "degenerative hypothesis" as racist and sharply criticized Christoph Meiners, an early practitioner of scientific racialism, as well as Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring, who concluded from autopsies that Africans were an inferior race. Blumenbach wrote three other essays stating non-white peoples were capable of excelling in arts and sciences in reaction against racialists of his time. At his time, Blumenbach was perceived as anti-racist and he strongly opposed the practice of slavery and the belief of the inherent savagery of the coloured races. Alexander von Humboldt wrote on his and Blumenbach's view: "While we maintain the unity of the human species, we at the same time repel the depressing assumption of superior and inferior races". However, selected parts of his views were later used by others to encourage scientific racism." [source: Wikipedia]
As a Russian I know many Caucasian people, in the southern region of Russia in the Caucasus mountains (!!) there are hundreds of ethnicities and languages and, consequently, of course cultures. I’ve been to this region many times (far from having explored it enough) and these are some of the most hospitable, honourable and of course beautiful people, both on the inside and outside. When I first heard “Caucasian” referred to as generically ALL white people, I was veeeery perplexed and I had some concerns 😅
Whats interesting is there is a point in US history where Armenians weren’t considered white. So you have a time where Caucasian was used to refer to white people in the US and Anglophone countries while actual immigrants from the Caucasus weren’t considered white. LMFAO
That's what made me confused when I learned about this term in English for White people like it was strange cuz *Caucasian* obviously refers to those from Caucasus Region- well...anyway
@@romarosePOC talk about it because everything ia racist here and the whites never let rhe POC forget that they are not white. In the U.S. people are made "other" when when their ancestors pre-date much if not all of the European colonists!
@@romaroseminorities talk about it now because in the past they weren’t allowed. Now they can finally point the racism that has plagued minorities for centuries. You make it sound like 60 yrs ago was a good time? you missing the Jim Crow era I see .
@@romarose - Hardly anywhere cos there is only one European country that has English as main language. In my country our skin colour is referred to as 'blank'. I never heard the term caucasian until I was in my twenties from an American who used it to refer to white Europeans.
The presence of White people in Europe did not simply occur out of thin air; they have a history of migration and movement from the Caucasus region. It is crucial to prioritize education and critical thinking, rather than being influenced solely by ideological propaganda.
thats right, my understanding is that whites are Caucasians but not all Caucasians are white, not to mention theres many ethnic people from caucacus countries that looks white too. it have affinity with both Europe and Asia being at their intersection.
@@it1970Circassians are good example they are in the northern caucuses region often known for their light skin and exact reason why their women were ideal slaves for ottomans and tatars. Not all Caucasian’s are like Azeris or Armenians this is coming from an Arab btw
Europeans dont come from the caucasus, thats a false myth. Indoeuropeans come from the pontic-caspian steppe, and dont share much genetically nor linguistically with caucasian people, who are more similar to other west asians. Many circassians and other caucasians of the russian Caucasus may look whiter due to russian colonists moving in the region since the 1800s
Right so just call them African cuz we all came from there why stop at Caucasus ...and btw haplogroup G or J that's the Maine haplogroups of Caucasus , western europeans "Americans not Caucasians " only have 2 percent and southern Italians may have more to 8 to 12 percent in Greece and Sicily
@@princessameIIiawuthe Caucasus mountains border Asia and Europe. Are Turks Asian? They compete in Eurovision along with Georgia. Asian is just a geographic term for where a nation is located. Asian in the UK usually refers to Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, et. But in the US it means Japan, China, Vietnam, et. Also, Egypt is African but we don’t say that Egyptians are the same as Kenyans. The umbrella term “white” is weird because there are people outside of Europe that just by looking at them you would assume “white”. Easier to just say by culture, and not group large continents all together as one group of people.
I think it's because of misinformation on the internet. I just assumed Caucasian is used for white people because that's how people talked about white people and so I just assumed it must be a white race thing from the past... At least now I know about the actual Caucasians.
This video is also deeply misleading. Most Caucasus peoples are very closely related to to Europeans as well as to other Central Asians and people's of the Northern Middle East.
And athough the Caucasus is a transitional region (it is also very common to have some actual Caucasian ancient ancestry among white Europeans) within the United States context, most people from or descended from the Caucuses are in fact considered to be "white". Furthermore, "White" and "Black" as racial signifiers are terms made up by slaveholding racists in Colonial Virginia USA to divide, -they do not have the specific meaning this video falsely implies.
It's more about the authors agenda of minimizing and narrowing down the "White" category as much as possible and attempting to isolate it from the rest of humanity, rhetorically speaking, to bolster his hip cred as a "person of color" with so called "anti racists" who tend be nothing of the sort. This is even while otherwise embracing a racially cosmopolitan vision of our true deeply mixed humanity.
@@jKLa Anyone can have ancestors from every corner of the globe, and that's not the point. This video puts things in context: the word "Caucasian" is in no way linked to a racial propaganda that uses our identity to refer to a "race", which contributes to erase our identity and our rich History in people's minds. The appropriator of this word, who was a racist supremacist anthropologist, speaks volumes. It's catastrophic that we can't even say "I'm Caucasian" without creating confusion in the head of an American who will associate it with a racial code, rather than a region and an identity. And as you say, we're the bridge between two continents and we have white people with European or Oriental features, olive skinned people, and people with Asian features. We're all very different.
@@YasEl7 yes, except that this video really does NOT put the true diverse and stransitional nature of the Caucuses in context: it instead mainly seeks to seperate it from Europe and emphasize Caucasians as people of color, rather then the truth that that race itself including "white" are not a real much less clear cut categories and that the Caucuses Mountains are deeply historically interwoven with their surrounding regions an all sides including with Europe. This video promotes a false and politically driven message just as much as attempts to racially Conflate the people of the Caucuses with Europeans.
I am white and really have never cared if people refer to me as caucasion or white. “Caucasian” is just a term that has been adopted (incorrectly, perhaps) to be used as a more official-sounding way of saying “white”. I think it’s people from Armenia or Georgia that care. I know a lot of Asians don’t refer to Indians or Pakistani people as “Asian”, even though they definitely live in Asia. I wonder why so many people get hung up on race?
This is really informative! I was alwyas confused about this especially because I'm slavic and I heard somebody refering to me as an caucasian. It was really weird because my first thought was about the caucas(?) region, while I knew I'm slavic
The thing is, he was actually right about the origins of the Indo European culture. DNA testing shows that the blue eyed gene originated somewhere in the caucuses around the black sea. And the Yamnaya (Proto Indo Europeans) culture has been linguistically and archeologically linked to the area. That's why scientists in the modern day continue to use the term while no longer using others. Because its accurate.
@@henningbartels6245blue eyes are pretty common in the caucasus and so are green, even if two brown eye parents have children some of them will have blue eyes,
@@Patrick1991InChrist Caucasian as white is nowadays only used in English and foremost in the US. Therefore international folks are often puzzled what this means because they only know the Caucasus as a region or mountain chain.
But you likely do have some ancestry from there. I am also not Irish or Scottish or Dutch though I do have ancestry from those places among others. I am a mixed European American. We Western Europeans and European Americans also sure didn't build the modern world on our own but we were core to it. Western civilization first began in the eastern Mediterranean and Northern Miiddle east and then spread through the Caucasas and Europe. Mathmatics as we know it is of Arabic origin but we still contributed plenty of our own. But many many others from around the world contributed in important ways as well along the way. The truth and only the truth should set us free.
@@jKLaThe first humans to do recorded mathematics were the Sumerian civilizations of the Middle East, India, China, the Aztecs and the Incas. However, this mathematics was inflexible and specialized, it was not until the people of India were the first to contribute to the foundations of modern mathematics, but it was built mostly by the Arabs of the Middle East, reaching Europe with the invasions. of the Arabian Peninsula, from North Africa.
Modern Europeans have genetic influence from the Caucasus, the Hunter Gatherers of the East mixed with the peoples of the Caucasus, these gave rise to the Yamnaya the first Indo-Europeans or steppe Indo-Europeans, the Indo-Europeans of the steppes mixed with the Farmers of the European Neolithic, curiously the Neolithic Europeans, possessed large amounts of DNA from peoples of the Levant, brought from the Middle East
@@user-yt3xd2jl6d yes, thank you for the clarifying specifics. But this supports the cradle of western Civilization indeed being in the near east and indeed goes to show that modern civilization comes from many sources!
In Sped class we were filling out practice job applications, and this one boy filled out African American, then Native American, and when the teacher said still no, it’s Caucasian, he looked up at her and just said “I’m not from Caucasia” And I watched her talk in circles trying to explain a concept that I’m pretty sure she didn’t understand either and was just unwilling to admit it.
It's not used throughout Europe. It's mostly an American thing. And it's usually black people calling white people that, it's rare to hear white people calling themselves that.
As a Turkish person, I was always so confused when white people getting referred as something that mostly means that a person is from Middle East&Anatolia.
As an Armenian Iranian person, I have no idea how this isn’t taught more regularly. I live in the UK now and I honestly cannot fathom how many people have genuinely said shit like they only respect caucasians living here, and at the same time have told me to go back where I came from. I lived in the emirates before and have spoken English fluently as a second language since before I started school. I am Caucasian and also very white, these comments I earned because of what was my accent, which I have since relearned. Misinformation is absolutely brutal, and thank you for this great video!
@@lou1012 clearly you have nothing to do with anything here or the caucasus and u just watch this mans videos and happened to stumble upon this, this man fyi, is spreading misinformation. And what he's doing is far more disrespectful to us caucasians than white ppl calling themselves caucasian. yes, armenians are caucasians but half caucasians dont exist, ur either caucasian or ur not, and to be considered caucasian u have to know ur culture well, "half caucasian" is something that doesnt exist here and clearly this person doesnt know shit about their culture if they werent aware of that. "Caucasian" isnt even technically a real term as the ethnic groups that live in the caucasus are all different and so are the languages. Caucasian used to refer to chechens, ingush, circassians and georgians only but thats changed now. Fyi the name caucasus comes from a chechen/ingush man. And us caucasians dont use the word caucasian to refer to ourselves for that reason, we have nothing to do w other ppl in the caucasus region.
I’m Russian, and a part of Caucasus is located here, so since childhood I’ve been familiar with parts of Caucasian culture (cuisine, clothing, tales, dances and language). And for the longest time I couldn’t understand why do Americans use this word for white people, who look nothing like actual Caucasians. Thanks a lot for explaining!
the caucasus is located in russia? Wrong, you forcefully made us part of russia. Get it right next time. And saying we look "nothing like" you is quite a stretch considering the oldest and most native ethnic groups of the caucasus are white eastern europeans.
While I do agree that white and Caucasian are two different things it’s not just because they describe two different people but also two different things. White is an umbrella term for people of the white race, whereas Caucasian can be considered a general ethnic group such as south Asian where there are smaller ethnicities within it.
When did teachers try to teach people what race they belonged to? Caucasian was invested to “other” white-skinned Hispanics. They didn’t want Hispanics to easy milk take over or confuse the common “Caucasian descended aka not Spaniard” German/Anglo (AngloSaxon) tongue (because let’s face it, western cultures are pretty homogenous otherwise except the food).
I was told by fellow students (and maybe online) that “Caucasian” was because non-Spaniard/non-Italian/non-Latin Europeans should stick together as one group and “white” didn’t make sense given that some Hispanics are lighter-skinned than some Anglo-Saxon descendants. Back in Bejamin Franklin’s day, they used extra terms of division like “tawny” and “swarthy” to differentiate the “different types of off-white almost-white skin tones of Swedes, Russians, “some Germans” that weren’t Anglo-Saxon, etc. I think they called Italians olive-skinned. Oh the easy ways to manipulate people into being sheep.
As someone living among a major Armenian population, THANK YOU SO MUCH. This "Caucasian==white" bullcrap has always pissed me off in my English studies
@13th.moon. Yes races are one also. Most people now know the Caucasian race as white people race (so it is now a general term for people who are white)
Caucasian is way more inclusive than white. The guy in the video and people in the comments just have no idea how the term Caucasian is and has always been used in terms of "race".
@@Putri-nl2gg Not realistically. If you look at someone who's definitively Caucasian, and some one 99% Northern European like me, you will see that that is drastically off and visually wrong. It's about as accurate as Christopher Columbus dubbing native North Americans "Indians"
@@AWindy94 There are only few people in caucasus that are natives in that region. most of them like armenians, azerbaijanis and some north caucasians are migrants in caucasus. thats why you think you look different. of course its different region but i can definitely say we are whiter than italian and spanish people. I'm georgian and i can say i'm blonder than you, my eyes are brighter than you and i'm whiter than you :)) what can i say more... i can even follow you on instagram and you will see it yourself haha :)
Stop playing ! Early European modern humans, or Cro-Magnons, were the first early modern humans to settle in Europe, migrating from western Asia, continuously occupying the continent possibly from as early as 56,800 years ago
You call people from Northern Europe: Nordic - Southern Europe: Mediterranean. - Eastern: Slavic - I know you’re trying really hard to make a name for yourself. But the constant misinformation because you hate white people is comical. You don’t call all Asians just Asian, you refer to them from their countries/ or geographical location. This is the problem, you want everyone to use scientific terms to refer to other groups of people, but you just want to call all “white people” European, or European descent. Either you learn about us, or stop talking about us. Thanks.
Not the same but differant Europeans are also not the same and especially different Caucuses peoples are not the same. Some true Caucasians are very white looking and certainly overlap with Europe culturally as well, others not so much at all. But people often don't like to admit such nuances in their broad generalizations of humanity...
I agree, european is better as it represents all the beautiful and diverse people of Europe better than caucasians which is a small region with less diversity.
@NorthernChimp they do have less diversity, which is much more likely due to its geographic area being more specific than the entirety of Europe. Many caucasians are European via geographic location anyways.
A lot of "Caucasian" people what you have showed in this video, they aren't true Caucasians, the indigenous people of the Caucasus mountain. Turkic and Iranian families, but not Caucasian. Of course, they are not Caucasians.
Yup! I'm Acadian, Cajun, which is an ethnic group that originated in France, was forcefully moved to Canada, then forcefully removed from Canada and pushed into the US. Our ethnic identity was widely erased to "Americanize" us. Until the 70's, we weren't even considered white, and we were called such against our will. We lost everything to it, including our beautiful dialect of French, which is so old that French linguists go to areas where the language survives to rediscover lost words. My grandmother was taught in a re-education "Finishing school" where she was so horribly punished for speaking her mother language that she refuses to teach her descendants. We were once a wonderful, communally driven culture who lived simply and worked hard. Now we're reduced to a handful of stereotypes and the commodified remains of our dieing culture. I am not Caucasian. I am Acadian. I will not be erased.
@@NorthernChimp ugh. I'll never understand forcing people to speak a standardized version of any language, especially if it's a matter of like... regional dialects. The loss of a language is the beginning of the end of the culture its attached to. We've seen it happen to so many different groups, and I've seen it happen in my own family tree. France has a lot of issues, but I'm American so I can't say much. Throwing stones in a glass house and all that.
An interesting thing to note is that the Acadians where forcibly deported from Canada to be replaced by Scottish forcibly deported from Scotland to be replaced by far more convenient herds of sheep.
When I tell you I was DUMBFOUNDED when I learned about the Caucasus mountains in geography 😠 I've been trying to tell people this for years but they think I'm crazy!
Modern europeans and other peoples did originate from there, the caucus were the starting point of the indo European invasions and migrations. One of the offspring civilizations from the caucus are the yamnaya people who are the forefathers of virtually all europeans today.
Most caucasian ethnic groups native to the caucasus arent asian either, he showed iranic immigrant groups like ossetians to make ppl believe we are. Smh.
I’m from Iran, my mom grew up there. It made me really happy when I heard you pronounce it right. (My whole life I’ve been kindly correcting people and they say “can I just say it the same way” ). Thank you for helping people learn about other cultures! (: have a great day to anyone reading this
My history/geography teacher last year spent an entire class period going over this, and made sure that we knew the racism in how it happened. That same period he went over the fact that there is no distinct barrier between europe and asia and they aren't really different continents, baffling our 9th grade brains, and enraged with how ridiculous it was. That class was a blast, im sad i won't have him next year.
You know what DID (probably) originate in that region? Wine. A toast to the wine mountains, to the wine makers!🥂 cheers! (Also the air-quotes around “anthropologists” had me cackling. I’ll just say that the “Development of Anthropological Theory” class was one heck of a wild ride. Like how med science has come from when they used to go by the 4 humors amount of change. )
Race is a the biggest stereotyping there is but some people still insist on using it to define themselves and others. The world has so much diversity it's even more obsolete than ever.
The Caucasus is one of the regions that Europeans came from The Yamnaya culture from the Eurasian Steppes mixed with Caucasus Hunter Gatherers and brought that lineage into Europe. Agriculture was introduced to Europe by Anatolian Neolithic Farmers (from West Asia, not Europe), and this included people from what is now Iran. There is even some DNA from the Ancestral North Eurasians (Siberian) that is part of the European mix (which is why some Europeans show up as part Native American on DNA tests... the Native Americans and the Europeans share some common ancestry through the Ancestral North Eurasians). Europeans are a mix of Western Hunter-Gatherers (like Cheddar Man), Neolithic Farmers from Anatolia, Caucasus Hunter-Gatherers mixed with Steppe Herders and the Ancestral North Eurasians. So making a strict demarcation between the Caucasus and Europe or West Asia is also a fallacy. Calling "white" people Caucasian is not strictly correct as a whole, but it's also not as silly as this video makes it out to be.
Most Europeans are though dependance of indo-Europeans. These people originated around the Caspian sea and caucuses mountains so there definitely is a link. Plus the Azeris are mostly turkic in origin so they came much later then the Armenians and Georgians.
It's similar with the origins of what an Arian is. Arians actually originate from Iran, but their name was appropriated and nowadays most people only think of you know who when they hear about Arians
At some point noble Poles considered themselves to be Sarmats but at least that didn't include any genocide, only wearing fancy eastern-inspired clothing and making big feasts.
it doesn't originate from Iran. Iranians are descendants of Indo Europeans, which all Europeans are also descendent from. this is why Sanskrit is a indo european language.
No Arians are an early Christian heresy in Alexandria Egypt that spread to parts of Germany because of Constantius II. If you are talking about Aryans they didn’t originate from Iran either, it was closer to southern Ukraine and Russia.
The modern genetic landscape of Europe, and even as far as India (i.e., within the last 5000ish years), was shaped by the Yamnaya people who are literally from the Caucasus. This German "pseudoscientist" was more correct than OP is giving him credit for. This is uncontroversial in contemporary anthropology.
To be fair, Caucasian does mean white person. You can look it up in dictionaries, like the Cambridge or Oxford. Nevertheless, it also means someone from the Caucasus, both definitions coexist. I’m not arguing we shouldn’t change it, as etymologically it is absurd; but I’m just saying using the word “Caucasian” to refer to white people is technically correct.
No it’s not, because it erases the identity of the real ethnic Caucasians. Do you understand that this word reflects people's identity and culture? If you have two definitions for one word, it's because one has been appropriated and is overshadowed by the other.
Caucasians are not white. Caucasians are Asian/European/middle eastern. Caucasian is a culture, history, tradition,dance. Caucasian is MORE than just an American race term.
finally someone spoke up about this, it's so irritating and funny to me at the same time when americans conflate caucasian with white. i'm from russia and actual caucasian people face racism here
One of the ancestral populations of Europe migrated out of the Eurasian steppes, two of the ancestral populations of Europe migrated out of the middle East.
As an Armenian, thank you! People always look so confused when I tell them that I don’t consider myself your typical white person and I always have to explain what being caucasian means
@@Azadgoli I’m not saying it’s wrong, i’m talking about people asuming that i’m a typical white american person, who lacks culture and food seasoning lol. Kinda stereotypical but still. That was my point, i’m not saying that there’s something wrong with being white, because technically Armenians do fall into the the white/european race category. Hope this cleared things up, I probably worded my thought poorly
@@marraaaa Ahh I see what you mean there. Just tell them your Armenian, Caucasian could mean other ethnic groups so might aswell make it clear your Armenian so they don't think Caucasian as in azerbaijani.
Because many African-Americans family members originated from Africa and there were made to give up their culture and their land.. you don't know that horrible story
@@GoogleUser-wy2vv Okay, case in point. White South Africans (from Transvaal province, one of those that eventually made up the country) with a few hundred years of lineage move to the US in... oh let's say 19011. Are their descendants African American?
@@TukikoTroy this is pretty complex because there's origin and there's color grouping which originated mainly to support racism.... those aren't really Africans.... they are mostly Europeans that moved to Africa. Would a white family who lived for 200 years in China call themselves Chinese?
@@GoogleUser-wy2vvSo it doesn't matter which country you are born in... just your ancestors? But ALL of our ancestors were born in Africa, so it's just an arbitrary decision as to how far back you want to take that? Those 'Europeans' you mentioned moved to Europe from Africa after all. The fact remains, that legally they are African, just as your example of white people born in China are legally Chinese. The point I am making is that a white south African whose descendants are born in the US has just as much right to claim they are African Americans. And because that is the case then the whole tern 'African American' is redundant. What you maybe should be saying is 'Black American' because you are using 'African' American to define ethnicity... but I have just demonstrated that 'African American' is not a matter of ethnic origin.
I remember a Vice News piece that had a clip of a call with a guy who angrily said "The Caucasian Founding Fathers" and so a wow_mao-esque shitpost of recasting the Framers into Georgians, Adyghe, Armenians, Chechens, Azeris, etc. has latched onto my mind and won't let go.
Well, they refer to „white“ people as Caucasian’s because it is assumed (archeological discoveries) that there were one or more civilizations/cultures that settled in the Caucasus region thousands of years ago and for some reason they started wandering towards the west and south/south west, slowly separating from the origin (language changed, culture changed and maybe appearance) some Caucasus languages are indo-european languages, which means they are relatives to almost all languages of Europe. Which in itself might be an indicator of a shared group of ancestors that once lived in the Caucasus region. And since humans tend to move around a lot during centuries and millennials, the outer appearance of nowadays inhabitants of the Caucasian region is not 100% what they might have looked like back then. Like wars, hunger, etc made people move and mix with other ethnicities.
The Proto Indo Europeans originated as a mix of Caucasus Hunter gatherers and the Eastern European Hunter gatherers. Some Europe a populations are a quarter Caucasian.
always annoying when an usamerican claims to be a caucasian, a lot of people dont know that it is actualy a racial dog whistle. Even i couldnt call myself caucasian despite being born in that region.
He included both europeans and middle eastern people in the same race. He also declared that black people were not inferior to other races. Yall so hungry to call oppression it's honestly sad
There's 2 meanings to the word Caucasian both seen here. One is a regional one, also referring to the many ethnic groups of the region, and one is in terms of race, basically equivalent to the white race. I find the term Caucasian is a very helpful term for talking with those who have a very limited concept of 'white' to just NorthWestern Europeans and their descendants, while Caucasian is a term they can accept as being inclusive of all Europeans,Middle Easterners, North Africans, Western Asians and South Asians. They have a less constrained understanding of the term Caucasian. In the US, the usage of white and black is oddly very specific to their history such that a very clearly white/Caucasian individual will be seen as non-white because they're not from the same descent as the Average American 'white person', such as for Latinos, or other immigrant communities.
I have lots of little entertaining shorts pop up, and a well curated list of playlists etc. You're the only creator from whom i know i will learn a whole new thing every single time I see you, whether it's 'random' or I'm actively browsing your channel. ❤️ I love your work here, and your enthusiasm about your history. I know so very little about so many beautiful things, and I'm grateful for the education!
Thanks for sharing- what a cool collab between the two of you guys. You both are awesome creators. Seems like there's always something new to learn from the both of your guys' channels.
Most "white people" are of Indo European descent. The "Aryans/Yamnaya/Indo Europeans" originally came from that area. So it kind of is accurate. Just because the people moved doesn't mean that's a bad descriptor. There are very few people in Europe that don't come from that area, the Basque of Northern Spain come to mind.
@petalchild Correct...people move and migrate over time and the reality of subjects like this are far, far more complicated than videos like this make it seem
Yeah alot of words from my language are the same in alot of languages, many norwegian words, english german ect but not slavic, also alot of lookalikes, you can take some person from ireland or england and put him here and he will look like us
But he was right since white people are Indo-Europeans and are connected to Iranians, Dravidians and other so-called Aryan(not the Hitler nonsense) races through DNA
@@moderatecanuckHaving ancestry from a certain group doesn't make you that certain group. Everyone has ancestry from Africa since it's where humans originated but that doesn't make everyone African. Just like how Europeans having ancestry from The Caucasus doesn't make them Caucasian. Especially since many in the Caucasus are extremely diverse and don't belong to the same groups. (Many are Turkic, Caucasian, Asian, Mongolian, etc...)
@@moderatecanuckalso another thing indigenous Caucasians aren't indo european to begin with. Only ossetians, trukic and Armenian people are. Who non of them are native.
Ever since I learned that the Caucasus is an actual region, being referred to as “Caucasian” as a synonym for “White” drives me nuts, especially when I have to select it myself on a demographic form because it’s the only option for “White.” I have German and English or Irish ancestry, which doesn’t make me truly Caucasian.
Mfw 18-19th century race scientists are being proven right tho. The modern genetic landscape of Eurasia was shaped by the Yamnaya people who originated, you guessed it, in the Southern Russian Caucasus region.
Correction. The Yamnaya originated from the Eurasian Steppes NORTH of the Caucasus not IN it. You are clearly mixing Yamnaya culture with Maykop culture. @@DagothUr3672
This has irritated me my entire life. Most americans don't even realize the caucasus mountains exist.
@@romarose idk anyone under 60 that knows this unless they have a special interest in archeology, geology, or history.
I understand your frustration. I knew this and never confused "White with "Causcasians" but I am very interested in cultures around the world. I am in my 30's 🙂 Americans are really bad with geography in general
@@C-SD I don't know many Americans over the age of 60 who know about the Caucasus Mountains either.
mOsT aMeRiCaNs...over generalized speech about any group is bigoted and intellectually dishonest. Are there Americans who don't care about geography? Sure. However, according to US Census data only about 35% of US adults have a high school diploma or less. Don't forget, the world sends it's children to the US for college degrees because we have quite a few of the best colleges in the world. It's inappropriate to watch a 3 minute hyper edited clip of those few undereducated adults, or kids who are still in high school failing simple math and geography questions and attribute those failures to "most Americans."
@@romarose A fair amount. I am almost 50 and live in the USA myself. I know a lot of people over age 60. I enjoy geography but most people in the USA I talk to aren't interested. Whether they are older or younger than me.
I really wish i'd known about this sooner! Growing up, i always heard people use the word "caucasian" when talking about white people. It confused me as a kid because i didnt know the origin of the word and kind of just accepted it as a synonym for white, because that's what i constantly saw people do. It was only recently that i found the caucasus mountains even existed and learned that caucasian does not infact mean white. I learned this from Florian's videos which really goes to show how important it is to educate people on these matters
Same I am so glad we live in an age where this knowledge is easily available. I am greatful for people like Florian who make videos educating people on places and cultures we don't tend to learn about in school
Yeah, when you're a child you just tend to accept as "normal" what you are exposed to on a daily basis by your family and the wider community, it's not until you grow up that you gain a broader understanding of human history and diversity
Although a German scientist came up with the term,I have never heard that term being use in Europe or in any classical literature.
@@cheezaroseIt's mostly used in the US
@@Cindy99765 Canada as well so I'd say North America! This is new information to me (I grew up hearing them used interchangeably as well) and I'm so grateful for people like Florian to help bridge the education gap!
Thank you👏🏻👏🏻!!!!! I’m North Ossetian (from Caucasus) and this whole thing is just so funny to me. I remember back when I was in school our English teacher told us that the word ‘Caucasian’ in the west is used as the word for ‘white person’, I was like “yeah… right😂”. I didn’t believe her at first, but my mind was blown away when I actually realized that it’s true. Like here in Russia we aren’t considered ‘white’ and usually have to face different forms of discrimination. So yeah the irony is real😅
You'd still be considered white in the US though
@denisebond1319 well yes but actually no.
We arent just Germanic, like the Russians we're kind of the Mutts of our end of the continent.
Theres some Norse, Anglo Saxon, French and the celts. Throw all that in a pot give it a few hundred years after the fall of Rome and poof The English.
what are you talking about??
you are not caucasian.
Ты не кавказец. Ты потомок иранцев.и правильно делают что вас не считают белыми
According to johann Blumenbach, a German Anthropologist, the man who created the word Caucasian in 1775 the person who you are referring to is a Caucasian.
According to him there are 5 races, the Caucasian, Mongolian, Malayan, American and Ethiopian. He visited Georgia and thought that the people from that area were the most beautiful people of the world therefor mankind must have originated from that area. He considered people from Europe, East Asia, the Middle East, India, North Africa as Caucasian. You can have a light skinned to brown skinned Caucasian according to Johann. Check the Caucasian map of the world.
Should bring more awareness that "white" is a grouping of like 200 cultures
But Caucasian is under the white umbrella correct?
@futureinfiniti2960 there shouldn't even be a "white" umbrella in the first place
"White" people are very genetically similar, thus yes, putting them as a race is ok. However what is NOT ok is saying all white people have the same culture.
@@Planet_hotIinewhites do it with Hispanics/Latino Americans
@@Planet_hotIinepeople from the Caucasus are genetically closer to Iranians and Levantine Arabs than they are to anyone from Europe…
That's right. I'm from Finland and it was quite weird for me to mark the Caucasian part of the form required to land in Australia. I know what Caucasus is and a fair bit about it. I have a thin lineage from there. My grand grandmother was the last one to somewhat hold on the culture. She was 2nd or 3rd generation. I attended her funeral in 2008.
Yeah, my only actual connection seems to be my mother’s maiden name appearing to originate in Georgia (the country of course), but we’re not sure.
The Finns belong to the Y-DNA haplogroup 'N' that is related to East Asian peoples.
It's funny for me because coming from Germany in Europe we also never used caucasian, I only heard of it in American videos
It’s Not Grand Grandmother
It’s “Great” Grandmother.
And then as many Greats As you need.
@@ede2362reminds me of people still calling native americans, indian
as a circassian (northern caucasus, southern russia) THANK YOU!!! FINALLY someone's talking about it! it's also ironic that in russia we're considered to be people of color and are discriminated against :)
Russians are literal mongols though. And the blonde ones look typical asian but with blonde hair and blue eyes. Russians are not European.
but you are white ? How can you be the people of collour?
Russians do not recognize Caucasians as white. They think Caucasians are dark-skinned
I mean it could be worse, but I don’t think you can get worse 19th century Russian treatment of Circassians.
@@kylezdancewicz7346 Relations between the Russian occupiers have always been the worst, and in past times when many children and women were slaughtered, but even now there is the strongest discrimination in the entire Caucasus.
Every group is diverse within itself.
Everything is relative. Is Japan diverse?
@@stanisawzokiewski3308Japan is a country not an area.
@@anastasiazamani9046 a country is an area
You are right. There are greater variants within a given “race” than there are dividing the “races”. This means RACE is an illusion. Many in America use it to keep and gain power, period.
Nah there actually seems to be an hierarchy for how diverse each « race » is
We don't have really close ties to asian culture. We (georgians) have our own language(non Indo-European), unique alphabet, clothes, building etc. North Caucasians have the same, but without alphabet(and they don't use asian letters, they use Cyrillic). Talking about Azerbaijani and Armenians, they are located in Caucasus region but they mostly don't call themselves Caucasians. Of course, we have some elements of neighbours culture, but we can't be part of them.
Anyway video is good, I liked it ❤
Ur still Asian, asia is diverse, u don’t need to relate to other asian groups to be asian, as long as u lie on the asian continent ur fine
ყველა წინადადებაში შეცდომა დაუშვეს.
ბლუმენბახი გერმანიაში ცხოვრებაშვე ყველაზე დაფასებული მეცნიერი იყო და ახლაც ძალიან დიდ პატივს სცემენ.
განგებ ცდილობენ დუდად წარმოაჩინონ
@@Georgian1121maybe you are right, I'm not really deep into this theory right now, but I will study Blumenbach's work one day, and I read something like this theory in Zviad's lecture, I want to read his works as well.
As a white person, THANK YOU!!!! Finally someone who knows the difference! I’m tired of people lumping all of us together when there are differences and it’s disrespectful to actual Caucasians.
Edit: I did not mean to start an argument in the replies and I’m sorry to the caucasians for assuming how you all felt.
You Racist do know that Irish, English, Germans, Italians and Poles ar not the same.
@@berserk9085who are you calling racist lol?
@@river9215 Im calling racist People racist. Are you a Racist too?
It's really not that disrespectful. We Caucasians( At least actual natives) are white. It is confusing but it's not disrespectful.
@berserk9085 Who you calling a racist moron?
So when discussing race it’s better to refer to people of European descent as “White” instead of associating all of them with people of the Caucasus region.
Make sure to check out Kahlil Greene’s page, he makes a lot of really interesting history videos as well, I hoped y’all enjoyed this little collab and if you learned something new make sure to follow us!
Kahlil’s page:
instagram.com/kahlil.greene?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
youtube.com/@genzhistorian
So what would the proper label be for white people in the US? Would it be just European?
I just found out today that I'm actually a direct descendant of the actual Caucasian people even though my family has lived in India (and now Pakistan) for pretty much ever. It's fascinating because my ancestors basically had the exact opposite migration route as the Romani people.
@@kaitkat3034Just white or Americans of European descent
@@zaraamir9165Are you Pathan?
It was once incorrectly thought that Caucasus people were a ‘lost tribe’ of Europeans. Genetic studies have shown that Caucasus people are their own unique tribes that are quite genetically distant from Europeans and closer to Turkish people. Caucasus people are different genetically, linguistically and culturally to Europeans and should not be thought of as just ‘a lost tribe’ of Europeans living near Iran, because all evidence proves this to be false.
About Johann Friedrich Blumenbach vs racism:
"He did not consider his "degenerative hypothesis" as racist and sharply criticized Christoph Meiners, an early practitioner of scientific racialism, as well as Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring, who concluded from autopsies that Africans were an inferior race. Blumenbach wrote three other essays stating non-white peoples were capable of excelling in arts and sciences in reaction against racialists of his time. At his time, Blumenbach was perceived as anti-racist and he strongly opposed the practice of slavery and the belief of the inherent savagery of the coloured races.
Alexander von Humboldt wrote on his and Blumenbach's view: "While we maintain the unity of the human species, we at the same time repel the depressing assumption of superior and inferior races".
However, selected parts of his views were later used by others to encourage scientific racism." [source: Wikipedia]
Forget that
Iran and Persian empire was probably the first colonizers ever
Along with mauryan and macedonia
As a Russian I know many Caucasian people, in the southern region of Russia in the Caucasus mountains (!!) there are hundreds of ethnicities and languages and, consequently, of course cultures. I’ve been to this region many times (far from having explored it enough) and these are some of the most hospitable, honourable and of course beautiful people, both on the inside and outside.
When I first heard “Caucasian” referred to as generically ALL white people, I was veeeery perplexed and I had some concerns 😅
Как я поняла слово ,,Caucasian,, означает ,, белый человек,,. Хочу уточнить, может я не так поняла))
@@user-zf1lw2yv7fда похоже правильно... я также поняла. Но это очень странно
Yeah in Russia the word Caucasian has a very specific meaning, it always refers to someone from that region. Caucasian cuisine, Caucasian accent, etc.
@@user-zf1lw2yv7fозначает «Кавказский»
Thank you dear ❤
The collab I never had expected. But I love it!
Is the black guy known on the internet? Anyhow, what is his Insta?
@@ryjitarose5590here for the answer
What's his name?
People looked at me like I was crazy for saying this in school.
Not to mention, the Languages of the Caucus were INTERESTING AS HELL! I could talk all day about them
Whats interesting is there is a point in US history where Armenians weren’t considered white. So you have a time where Caucasian was used to refer to white people in the US and Anglophone countries while actual immigrants from the Caucasus weren’t considered white. LMFAO
I'm French with also Italian, Polish and German roots and partly Armenian origins. What am I then?
@@jennsuicune A damn good cook, I'd hope! 😝
Armenians are not white
@@evientually 🤣
@@jennsuicunehe Italian, Armenian and Polish parts of you would have been inferior in America 80 years ago.
That's what made me confused when I learned about this term in English for White people like it was strange cuz *Caucasian* obviously refers to those from Caucasus Region- well...anyway
@@romarose I feel like race in Europe is not as big as it is in the US, people normally just refer to their culture or birthplace.
@@Ummmmmmmm841 yeah same in Russia we have more problems about ethnicities than about races
@@romarosePOC talk about it because everything ia racist here and the whites never let rhe POC forget that they are not white. In the U.S. people are made "other" when when their ancestors pre-date much if not all of the European colonists!
@@romaroseminorities talk about it now because in the past they weren’t allowed. Now they can finally point the racism that has plagued minorities for centuries. You make it sound like 60 yrs ago was a good time? you missing the Jim Crow era I see .
@@romarose - Hardly anywhere cos there is only one European country that has English as main language. In my country our skin colour is referred to as 'blank'. I never heard the term caucasian until I was in my twenties from an American who used it to refer to white Europeans.
The presence of White people in Europe did not simply occur out of thin air; they have a history of migration and movement from the Caucasus region. It is crucial to prioritize education and critical thinking, rather than being influenced solely by ideological propaganda.
But white people bad. Hurr durr. Colonizers. Goo goo gah gah.
thats right, my understanding is that whites are Caucasians but not all Caucasians are white, not to mention theres many ethnic people from caucacus countries that looks white too. it have affinity with both Europe and Asia being at their intersection.
@@it1970Circassians are good example they are in the northern caucuses region often known for their light skin and exact reason why their women were ideal slaves for ottomans and tatars. Not all Caucasian’s are like Azeris or Armenians this is coming from an Arab btw
Europeans dont come from the caucasus, thats a false myth. Indoeuropeans come from the pontic-caspian steppe, and dont share much genetically nor linguistically with caucasian people, who are more similar to other west asians. Many circassians and other caucasians of the russian Caucasus may look whiter due to russian colonists moving in the region since the 1800s
Right so just call them African cuz we all came from there why stop at Caucasus ...and btw haplogroup G or J that's the Maine haplogroups of Caucasus , western europeans "Americans not Caucasians " only have 2 percent and southern Italians may have more to 8 to 12 percent in Greece and Sicily
Going by that logic, Black people and Africans are different groups of people
??? White Americans come from EUROPE Caucasian people come from ASIA completely different.
@@princessameIIiawu white people came from europe. people in europe came from pontic caspian steppes near the caucasus mountains. is it clear now?
@@princessameIIiawuthe Caucasus mountains border Asia and Europe. Are Turks Asian? They compete in Eurovision along with Georgia. Asian is just a geographic term for where a nation is located. Asian in the UK usually refers to Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, et. But in the US it means Japan, China, Vietnam, et.
Also, Egypt is African but we don’t say that Egyptians are the same as Kenyans. The umbrella term “white” is weird because there are people outside of Europe that just by looking at them you would assume “white”. Easier to just say by culture, and not group large continents all together as one group of people.
thanks so much for bringing attention to this! caucasian peoples identities are very underrepresented in public eye.
I think it's because of misinformation on the internet. I just assumed Caucasian is used for white people because that's how people talked about white people and so I just assumed it must be a white race thing from the past... At least now I know about the actual Caucasians.
This was really informative, thank you!
It was also someone else’s video.
@@jenniferh.2150it’s a collab, i’m the other person in the video
@@florida.florian I watched a similar talk last week before you released this. It just be a hot take right now.
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As a Chechen, THANK YOU for this video!
This video is also deeply misleading. Most Caucasus peoples are very closely related to to Europeans as well as to other Central Asians and people's of the Northern Middle East.
And athough the Caucasus is a transitional region (it is also very common to have some actual Caucasian ancient ancestry among white Europeans) within the United States context, most people from or descended from the Caucuses are in fact considered to be "white". Furthermore, "White" and "Black" as racial signifiers are terms made up by slaveholding racists in Colonial Virginia USA to divide, -they do not have the specific meaning this video falsely implies.
It's more about the authors agenda of minimizing and narrowing down the "White" category as much as possible and attempting to isolate it from the rest of humanity, rhetorically speaking, to bolster his hip cred as a "person of color" with so called "anti racists" who tend be nothing of the sort. This is even while otherwise embracing a racially cosmopolitan vision of our true deeply mixed humanity.
@@jKLa Anyone can have ancestors from every corner of the globe, and that's not the point. This video puts things in context: the word "Caucasian" is in no way linked to a racial propaganda that uses our identity to refer to a "race", which contributes to erase our identity and our rich History in people's minds. The appropriator of this word, who was a racist supremacist anthropologist, speaks volumes. It's catastrophic that we can't even say "I'm Caucasian" without creating confusion in the head of an American who will associate it with a racial code, rather than a region and an identity. And as you say, we're the bridge between two continents and we have white people with European or Oriental features, olive skinned people, and people with Asian features. We're all very different.
@@YasEl7 yes, except that this video really does NOT put the true diverse and stransitional nature of the Caucuses in context: it instead mainly seeks to seperate it from Europe and emphasize Caucasians as people of color, rather then the truth that that race itself including "white" are not a real much less clear cut categories and that the Caucuses Mountains are deeply historically interwoven with their surrounding regions an all sides including with Europe. This video promotes a false and politically driven message just as much as attempts to racially Conflate the people of the Caucuses with Europeans.
I am white and really have never cared if people refer to me as caucasion or white. “Caucasian” is just a term that has been adopted (incorrectly, perhaps) to be used as a more official-sounding way of saying “white”. I think it’s people from Armenia or Georgia that care.
I know a lot of Asians don’t refer to Indians or Pakistani people as “Asian”, even though they definitely live in Asia. I wonder why so many people get hung up on race?
No one in Europe considers themselves Caucasian
This is really informative! I was alwyas confused about this especially because I'm slavic and I heard somebody refering to me as an caucasian. It was really weird because my first thought was about the caucas(?) region, while I knew I'm slavic
Caucasus mountains is a passage between Black sea and Kaspian Sea, this is where people went through to Europe after Babilonian mix of languages
@@sat2255If they passed through these mountains from this they do not become Caucasians
@simonghostriley3825 it is just a name, do you know that one word can have several meaning, these are polysemantic words
The thing is, he was actually right about the origins of the Indo European culture. DNA testing shows that the blue eyed gene originated somewhere in the caucuses around the black sea. And the Yamnaya (Proto Indo Europeans) culture has been linguistically and archeologically linked to the area. That's why scientists in the modern day continue to use the term while no longer using others. Because its accurate.
I doubt the blue eyes theory - is there a source for it?
@@henningbartels6245 I sent two links, hopefully they work. CZcams is weird when it comes to the stuff.
@@henningbartels6245blue eyes are pretty common in the caucasus and so are green, even if two brown eye parents have children some of them will have blue eyes,
Thank you. People are so g he struck in ignorance. Caucasian is white.
@@Patrick1991InChrist Caucasian as white is nowadays only used in English and foremost in the US. Therefore international folks are often puzzled what this means because they only know the Caucasus as a region or mountain chain.
Bro Turk comes from Mongolia. Turkic doesn't exist in Middle East or Caucas region. Azeris 100% Persian DNA and Turkey is Armenian and Greek genetic.
I am American, with western European roots. We built the modern world and I’m proud of it. I have nothing in common with the Caucus mountains people.
But you likely do have some ancestry from there. I am also not Irish or Scottish or Dutch though I do have ancestry from those places among others. I am a mixed European American. We Western Europeans and European Americans also sure didn't build the modern world on our own but we were core to it. Western civilization first began in the eastern Mediterranean and Northern Miiddle east and then spread through the Caucasas and Europe. Mathmatics as we know it is of Arabic origin but we still contributed plenty of our own. But many many others from around the world contributed in important ways as well along the way. The truth and only the truth should set us free.
@@jKLaThe first humans to do recorded mathematics were the Sumerian civilizations of the Middle East, India, China, the Aztecs and the Incas. However, this mathematics was inflexible and specialized, it was not until the people of India were the first to contribute to the foundations of modern mathematics, but it was built mostly by the Arabs of the Middle East, reaching Europe with the invasions. of the Arabian Peninsula, from North Africa.
Modern Europeans have genetic influence from the Caucasus, the Hunter Gatherers of the East mixed with the peoples of the Caucasus, these gave rise to the Yamnaya the first Indo-Europeans or steppe Indo-Europeans, the Indo-Europeans of the steppes mixed with the Farmers of the European Neolithic, curiously the Neolithic Europeans, possessed large amounts of DNA from peoples of the Levant, brought from the Middle East
@@user-yt3xd2jl6d yes, thank you for the clarifying specifics. But this supports the cradle of western Civilization indeed being in the near east and indeed goes to show that modern civilization comes from many sources!
"Built the morden world" you didn't do shit and now everyone is depressed and miserable you should of kept your "modern world" to yourselves
In Sped class we were filling out practice job applications, and this one boy filled out African American, then Native American, and when the teacher said still no, it’s Caucasian, he looked up at her and just said “I’m not from Caucasia”
And I watched her talk in circles trying to explain a concept that I’m pretty sure she didn’t understand either and was just unwilling to admit it.
Ok sped
@@atheistman-mt3cg ???
@@annataymond9529 go back to the short bus
@@annataymond9529he’s trying to project his own idiocy onto you
The only good thing about youtube notifications is that i dont have to waste my time arguing with half-witted people like the one above me.
Thank you! I get annoyed with the ignorance people have when I say I like Caucasian food.
Wow, that's another level of... I don't even know what, haha.
you like caucasian food? that's so cool. i love it when foreigners like our stuff (white georgian here)
Caucasian food is freaking amazing. So underrated.
Omg, I love Caucasian food, especially Chinkali.
@@haileybalmer9722as a Chechen(it’s in Caucase)I can confirm that the food is amazing
It's not used throughout Europe. It's mostly an American thing. And it's usually black people calling white people that, it's rare to hear white people calling themselves that.
Nah ik people who call themselves that
As a Turkish person, I was always so confused when white people getting referred as something that mostly means that a person is from Middle East&Anatolia.
yeah anyways get out of my homeland you bozo
As an Armenian Iranian person, I have no idea how this isn’t taught more regularly. I live in the UK now and I honestly cannot fathom how many people have genuinely said shit like they only respect caucasians living here, and at the same time have told me to go back where I came from. I lived in the emirates before and have spoken English fluently as a second language since before I started school. I am Caucasian and also very white, these comments I earned because of what was my accent, which I have since relearned. Misinformation is absolutely brutal, and thank you for this great video!
Ur not caucasian.
@@dhuejshsiwnxjw ?
@@dhuejshsiwnxjwThey said Armenian, did they not?
@@lou1012 clearly you have nothing to do with anything here or the caucasus and u just watch this mans videos and happened to stumble upon this, this man fyi, is spreading misinformation. And what he's doing is far more disrespectful to us caucasians than white ppl calling themselves caucasian. yes, armenians are caucasians but half caucasians dont exist, ur either caucasian or ur not, and to be considered caucasian u have to know ur culture well, "half caucasian" is something that doesnt exist here and clearly this person doesnt know shit about their culture if they werent aware of that. "Caucasian" isnt even technically a real term as the ethnic groups that live in the caucasus are all different and so are the languages. Caucasian used to refer to chechens, ingush, circassians and georgians only but thats changed now. Fyi the name caucasus comes from a chechen/ingush man. And us caucasians dont use the word caucasian to refer to ourselves for that reason, we have nothing to do w other ppl in the caucasus region.
Said "shit like they only respect caucasians living here", I'll take things that didn't happen for $100.
I’m Russian, and a part of Caucasus is located here, so since childhood I’ve been familiar with parts of Caucasian culture (cuisine, clothing, tales, dances and language). And for the longest time I couldn’t understand why do Americans use this word for white people, who look nothing like actual Caucasians. Thanks a lot for explaining!
the caucasus is located in russia? Wrong, you forcefully made us part of russia. Get it right next time. And saying we look "nothing like" you is quite a stretch considering the oldest and most native ethnic groups of the caucasus are white eastern europeans.
@@dhuejshsiwnxjwexactly. 😅 The Caucasus was a thing before Russia even existed
@@dhuejshsiwnxjwcry about it
Russia won't exist soon lol
@@dhuejshsiwnxjw uuuu i was looking for this thank you 👍
I subscribed as soon as I saw my brother in the beginning. I love these educational channels soooo much
While I do agree that white and Caucasian are two different things it’s not just because they describe two different people but also two different things. White is an umbrella term for people of the white race, whereas Caucasian can be considered a general ethnic group such as south Asian where there are smaller ethnicities within it.
It is straight up embarrassing how much more I learn from you than I ever learned in school
@beishtkione24 maybe teachers should have had better curriculum. I was a straight A student.
When did teachers try to teach people what race they belonged to? Caucasian was invested to “other” white-skinned Hispanics. They didn’t want Hispanics to easy milk take over or confuse the common “Caucasian descended aka not Spaniard” German/Anglo (AngloSaxon) tongue (because let’s face it, western cultures are pretty homogenous otherwise except the food).
I was told by fellow students (and maybe online) that “Caucasian” was because non-Spaniard/non-Italian/non-Latin Europeans should stick together as one group and “white” didn’t make sense given that some Hispanics are lighter-skinned than some Anglo-Saxon descendants. Back in Bejamin Franklin’s day, they used extra terms of division like “tawny” and “swarthy” to differentiate the “different types of off-white almost-white skin tones of Swedes, Russians, “some Germans” that weren’t Anglo-Saxon, etc. I think they called Italians olive-skinned. Oh the easy ways to manipulate people into being sheep.
its insane that i never learned that george washington owned slaves in the US, like imagine that with hitler
@@degenerateintheclosetit was in my books I think
As someone living among a major Armenian population, THANK YOU SO MUCH. This "Caucasian==white" bullcrap has always pissed me off in my English studies
I mean that's what the word means now. Meanings of words change thorighout time so yeah, I'm Caucasian.
@@Azadgolifunny.
@@Azadgoliyou can change alot of things but literal races aren’t one of ‘em💀
@13th.moon. Yes races are one also. Most people now know the Caucasian race as white people race (so it is now a general term for people who are white)
@@13th.moon. Also most people in caucasus rather not be placed under a label which their enemies are also under.
I have a preference of being called English or European..... Care for the word white... It's not really used in a positive way nowadays...
“Is because of this guy”
My ass: “GEORGE WASHINGTON”
I'm Caucasian🇹🇷😏
The amount of times that I've had to put down "Caucasian" to indicate "white" on government forms.... Yeah that's got to change.
Its insane that government forms even ask about race
Caucasian is way more inclusive than white. The guy in the video and people in the comments just have no idea how the term Caucasian is and has always been used in terms of "race".
Not really because your features are in the caucasoid group
@@Putri-nl2gg Not realistically. If you look at someone who's definitively Caucasian, and some one 99% Northern European like me, you will see that that is drastically off and visually wrong. It's about as accurate as Christopher Columbus dubbing native North Americans "Indians"
@@AWindy94 There are only few people in caucasus that are natives in that region. most of them like armenians, azerbaijanis and some north caucasians are migrants in caucasus. thats why you think you look different. of course its different region but i can definitely say we are whiter than italian and spanish people. I'm georgian and i can say i'm blonder than you, my eyes are brighter than you and i'm whiter than you :)) what can i say more... i can even follow you on instagram and you will see it yourself haha :)
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Western Europeans are and have always been the global minority
Who is the yellow one?
@@Alsadree We all know, you just want someone to say it.
Stop playing ! Early European modern humans, or Cro-Magnons, were the first early modern humans to settle in Europe, migrating from western Asia, continuously occupying the continent possibly from as early as 56,800 years ago
You call people from Northern Europe: Nordic
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Southern Europe: Mediterranean.
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Eastern: Slavic
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I know you’re trying really hard to make a name for yourself. But the constant misinformation because you hate white people is comical. You don’t call all Asians just Asian, you refer to them from their countries/ or geographical location.
This is the problem, you want everyone to use scientific terms to refer to other groups of people, but you just want to call all “white people” European, or European descent.
Either you learn about us, or stop talking about us. Thanks.
Thank you
As a Circassian(native Caucasian) THANK. YOU. So many people think it's the same and it infuriates me.
Not the same but differant Europeans are also not the same and especially different Caucuses peoples are not the same. Some true Caucasians are very white looking and certainly overlap with Europe culturally as well, others not so much at all. But people often don't like to admit such nuances in their broad generalizations of humanity...
Same here!!! This always pisses me off.
@@Circassiangurl2002 same :(
Caucasian was one of those labels that never made sense to me.
Like European was an option?
Yeah, but most of Caucasians are still white.
I agree, european is better as it represents all the beautiful and diverse people of Europe better than caucasians which is a small region with less diversity.
@@reviewjimeu9513 The region is smaller, but I'm not sure they have less diversity.
@NorthernChimp they do have less diversity, which is much more likely due to its geographic area being more specific than the entirety of Europe. Many caucasians are European via geographic location anyways.
@@reviewjimeu9513 Just look at how many languages are spoken there. Diversity is much more concentrated than in the rest of Europe.
A lot of "Caucasian" people what you have showed in this video, they aren't true Caucasians, the indigenous people of the Caucasus mountain. Turkic and Iranian families, but not Caucasian. Of course, they are not Caucasians.
Key words of “colonisation”
Yup! I'm Acadian, Cajun, which is an ethnic group that originated in France, was forcefully moved to Canada, then forcefully removed from Canada and pushed into the US. Our ethnic identity was widely erased to "Americanize" us. Until the 70's, we weren't even considered white, and we were called such against our will. We lost everything to it, including our beautiful dialect of French, which is so old that French linguists go to areas where the language survives to rediscover lost words. My grandmother was taught in a re-education "Finishing school" where she was so horribly punished for speaking her mother language that she refuses to teach her descendants.
We were once a wonderful, communally driven culture who lived simply and worked hard. Now we're reduced to a handful of stereotypes and the commodified remains of our dieing culture.
I am not Caucasian. I am Acadian. I will not be erased.
While in France, the standardized French language was being forced upon people in a similar way.
@@NorthernChimp ugh. I'll never understand forcing people to speak a standardized version of any language, especially if it's a matter of like... regional dialects. The loss of a language is the beginning of the end of the culture its attached to. We've seen it happen to so many different groups, and I've seen it happen in my own family tree.
France has a lot of issues, but I'm American so I can't say much. Throwing stones in a glass house and all that.
Viva la Acadia
Free Canada
An interesting thing to note is that the Acadians where forcibly deported from Canada to be replaced by Scottish forcibly deported from Scotland to be replaced by far more convenient herds of sheep.
When I tell you I was DUMBFOUNDED when I learned about the Caucasus mountains in geography 😠 I've been trying to tell people this for years but they think I'm crazy!
Modern europeans and other peoples did originate from there, the caucus were the starting point of the indo European invasions and migrations. One of the offspring civilizations from the caucus are the yamnaya people who are the forefathers of virtually all europeans today.
We do not use the word Caucasian in Europe.
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Thank you.
(I'm not Asian, but I appreciate the information and wish it had been taught in primary school or secondary school.)
Most caucasian ethnic groups native to the caucasus arent asian either, he showed iranic immigrant groups like ossetians to make ppl believe we are. Smh.
It's YOU!! I'm happy to see you in my shorts again 😃
I’m from Iran, my mom grew up there. It made me really happy when I heard you pronounce it right. (My whole life I’ve been kindly correcting people and they say “can I just say it the same way” ). Thank you for helping people learn about other cultures! (: have a great day to anyone reading this
Nice video. As a Caucasian Turk I appreciate your effort defending the name of our region
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Turks are central Asian not Caucasian.
Caucasian dances are so beautiful i love watching the men n women dance it’s mesmerizing
Don’t they think it’s kinda strange that you’re staring at them through their window like that?
@@matthewsmith5374You can watch caucasian dances and weddings on youtube. Didn't you know this?
My history/geography teacher last year spent an entire class period going over this, and made sure that we knew the racism in how it happened. That same period he went over the fact that there is no distinct barrier between europe and asia and they aren't really different continents, baffling our 9th grade brains, and enraged with how ridiculous it was. That class was a blast, im sad i won't have him next year.
He sounds like a political activist why enrage kids about race
ye racism wasn't a thing until some german invented it YEP
White/European and Caucasians are technically the same race.
Interesting. All I knew was that white and Caucasian were used interchangeably, but white was the broader term, just like black vs African.
You always teach me something new! Thank you 😊
You know what DID (probably) originate in that region?
Wine.
A toast to the wine mountains, to the wine makers!🥂 cheers!
(Also the air-quotes around “anthropologists” had me cackling. I’ll just say that the “Development of Anthropological Theory” class was one heck of a wild ride. Like how med science has come from when they used to go by the 4 humors amount of change. )
Race is a the biggest stereotyping there is but some people still insist on using it to define themselves and others. The world has so much diversity it's even more obsolete than ever.
That baby is light skinned, but not just light skinned, that is a white child that is Caucasian from the mountains of Caucasus!
I didn't even know people associated Caucasian with just being white, but it makes a lot of stuff I've heard make more sense
The Caucasus is one of the regions that Europeans came from The Yamnaya culture from the Eurasian Steppes mixed with Caucasus Hunter Gatherers and brought that lineage into Europe. Agriculture was introduced to Europe by Anatolian Neolithic Farmers (from West Asia, not Europe), and this included people from what is now Iran. There is even some DNA from the Ancestral North Eurasians (Siberian) that is part of the European mix (which is why some Europeans show up as part Native American on DNA tests... the Native Americans and the Europeans share some common ancestry through the Ancestral North Eurasians).
Europeans are a mix of Western Hunter-Gatherers (like Cheddar Man), Neolithic Farmers from Anatolia, Caucasus Hunter-Gatherers mixed with Steppe Herders and the Ancestral North Eurasians.
So making a strict demarcation between the Caucasus and Europe or West Asia is also a fallacy. Calling "white" people Caucasian is not strictly correct as a whole, but it's also not as silly as this video makes it out to be.
Caucasians are not Iranians
@@simonghostriley3825Iranians ARE Caucasian. Caucasus mountain is located in Iran
@@NANA-jh8gsno?
@@NANA-jh8gs Mostly no, Caucasus mountains located between South Russian Republic and Iran
@@NANA-jh8gsno??? The caucasus mountain aren't in Iran. Also indigenous Caucasians don't have indo European or Iranian dna lol
WERE ALL HUMAN
Most Europeans are though dependance of indo-Europeans. These people originated around the Caspian sea and caucuses mountains so there definitely is a link. Plus the Azeris are mostly turkic in origin so they came much later then the Armenians and Georgians.
It's similar with the origins of what an Arian is. Arians actually originate from Iran, but their name was appropriated and nowadays most people only think of you know who when they hear about Arians
At some point noble Poles considered themselves to be Sarmats but at least that didn't include any genocide, only wearing fancy eastern-inspired clothing and making big feasts.
it doesn't originate from Iran. Iranians are descendants of Indo Europeans, which all Europeans are also descendent from. this is why Sanskrit is a indo european language.
No Arians are an early Christian heresy in Alexandria Egypt that spread to parts of Germany because of Constantius II.
If you are talking about Aryans they didn’t originate from Iran either, it was closer to southern Ukraine and Russia.
Aryan is an Indian word not iranian its first mentioned in Rig-Veda and referred to North Indians
Same for you Aryan are northern Indians not Iranians
To that German pseudoscientist: just tell us we are pretty and go.
The modern genetic landscape of Europe, and even as far as India (i.e., within the last 5000ish years), was shaped by the Yamnaya people who are literally from the Caucasus. This German "pseudoscientist" was more correct than OP is giving him credit for. This is uncontroversial in contemporary anthropology.
@@DagothUr3672I heard that Yamnaya were from near the area of Ukraine.
@@DagothUr3672Yamanya tribe originated from the Don Volga region of Ukraine/Russia, not he Caucasus.
only the video says he was a pseudoscientist.
It would look more pretty, if you would really learn about him.
@@DagothUr3672they are from the pontiac steppe north lf the caucasus mountains
To be fair, Caucasian does mean white person. You can look it up in dictionaries, like the Cambridge or Oxford. Nevertheless, it also means someone from the Caucasus, both definitions coexist. I’m not arguing we shouldn’t change it, as etymologically it is absurd; but I’m just saying using the word “Caucasian” to refer to white people is technically correct.
Very intelligent answer. Not only did I learn something, but I respect the knowledge
No it’s not, because it erases the identity of the real ethnic Caucasians.
Do you understand that this word reflects people's identity and culture? If you have two definitions for one word, it's because one has been appropriated and is overshadowed by the other.
Caucasians are not white. Caucasians are Asian/European/middle eastern. Caucasian is a culture, history, tradition,dance. Caucasian is MORE than just an American race term.
Caucasian means a bigger group white people are part of.
Thank you, this cleared up some confusion I had.
finally someone spoke up about this, it's so irritating and funny to me at the same time when americans conflate caucasian with white. i'm from russia and actual caucasian people face racism here
One of the ancestral populations of Europe migrated out of the Eurasian steppes, two of the ancestral populations of Europe migrated out of the middle East.
I like how Americans can go on "discovering" common knowledge
Persian here and i love your content ...way to go ✊✊✊
Whatttt ? That’s crazy thanks for educating us
Those people are the most beautiful people of human race .
I grew up in a very culturally diverse area. This included Caucasian peoples such as Georgians and Azeris. They are incredibly welcoming people
damn thank you! tired of that bs, i've been trying to explain that to some people before
As an Armenian, thank you! People always look so confused when I tell them that I don’t consider myself your typical white person and I always have to explain what being caucasian means
What's wrong with being white? Yes spitakem, du seves???
@@Azadgoli I’m not saying it’s wrong, i’m talking about people asuming that i’m a typical white american person, who lacks culture and food seasoning lol. Kinda stereotypical but still. That was my point, i’m not saying that there’s something wrong with being white, because technically Armenians do fall into the the white/european race category. Hope this cleared things up, I probably worded my thought poorly
@@marraaaa Ahh I see what you mean there. Just tell them your Armenian, Caucasian could mean other ethnic groups so might aswell make it clear your Armenian so they don't think Caucasian as in azerbaijani.
@@Azadgolizarbaijanis arent caucasian theyre turkic. Them moving into caucasian land and stealing our culture doesnt make them caucasian.
Youre not caucasian, people in caucasus have never heard of armenia and the same in armenia they never heard about kavkaz so why u making things up?
And yet we are quite happy with calling some 'African American' when Africa is this massive continent with a rich diversity of peoples.
Because many African-Americans family members originated from Africa and there were made to give up their culture and their land.. you don't know that horrible story
@@GoogleUser-wy2vv Okay, case in point. White South Africans (from Transvaal province, one of those that eventually made up the country) with a few hundred years of lineage move to the US in... oh let's say 19011. Are their descendants African American?
@@TukikoTroy this is pretty complex because there's origin and there's color grouping which originated mainly to support racism.... those aren't really Africans.... they are mostly Europeans that moved to Africa. Would a white family who lived for 200 years in China call themselves Chinese?
@@GoogleUser-wy2vvSo it doesn't matter which country you are born in... just your ancestors? But ALL of our ancestors were born in Africa, so it's just an arbitrary decision as to how far back you want to take that? Those 'Europeans' you mentioned moved to Europe from Africa after all. The fact remains, that legally they are African, just as your example of white people born in China are legally Chinese. The point I am making is that a white south African whose descendants are born in the US has just as much right to claim they are African Americans. And because that is the case then the whole tern 'African American' is redundant. What you maybe should be saying is 'Black American' because you are using 'African' American to define ethnicity... but I have just demonstrated that 'African American' is not a matter of ethnic origin.
I remember a Vice News piece that had a clip of a call with a guy who angrily said "The Caucasian Founding Fathers" and so a wow_mao-esque shitpost of recasting the Framers into Georgians, Adyghe, Armenians, Chechens, Azeris, etc. has latched onto my mind and won't let go.
Well, they refer to „white“ people as Caucasian’s because it is assumed (archeological discoveries) that there were one or more civilizations/cultures that settled in the Caucasus region thousands of years ago and for some reason they started wandering towards the west and south/south west, slowly separating from the origin (language changed, culture changed and maybe appearance) some Caucasus languages are indo-european languages, which means they are relatives to almost all languages of Europe. Which in itself might be an indicator of a shared group of ancestors that once lived in the Caucasus region. And since humans tend to move around a lot during centuries and millennials, the outer appearance of nowadays inhabitants of the Caucasian region is not 100% what they might have looked like back then. Like wars, hunger, etc made people move and mix with other ethnicities.
The Proto Indo Europeans originated as a mix of Caucasus Hunter gatherers and the Eastern European Hunter gatherers.
Some Europe a populations are a quarter Caucasian.
always annoying when an usamerican claims to be a caucasian, a lot of people dont know that it is actualy a racial dog whistle.
Even i couldnt call myself caucasian despite being born in that region.
White people in America don't really call ourselves Caucasian
Wdym?
He included both europeans and middle eastern people in the same race. He also declared that black people were not inferior to other races. Yall so hungry to call oppression it's honestly sad
That baby is Caucasian from the mountains of caucuses.
He got a credit score of 730 at this stage as an infant
There's 2 meanings to the word Caucasian both seen here.
One is a regional one, also referring to the many ethnic groups of the region, and one is in terms of race, basically equivalent to the white race.
I find the term Caucasian is a very helpful term for talking with those who have a very limited concept of 'white' to just NorthWestern Europeans and their descendants, while Caucasian is a term they can accept as being inclusive of all Europeans,Middle Easterners, North Africans, Western Asians and South Asians.
They have a less constrained understanding of the term Caucasian.
In the US, the usage of white and black is oddly very specific to their history such that a very clearly white/Caucasian individual will be seen as non-white because they're not from the same descent as the Average American 'white person', such as for Latinos, or other immigrant communities.
just be straight and says because your racist culture. we know about "wop" as often dicriminate people from italy and irish label.
Commenting to boost this. Thank you for introducing me to Kahlil.👍
Colors being used to attempt to pinpoint ethnic people's locations in the world are so antiquated
Why does everyone still separate people into races? I find it's much more accurate and useful to identify people by culture.
I have lots of little entertaining shorts pop up, and a well curated list of playlists etc. You're the only creator from whom i know i will learn a whole new thing every single time I see you, whether it's 'random' or I'm actively browsing your channel. ❤️ I love your work here, and your enthusiasm about your history. I know so very little about so many beautiful things, and I'm grateful for the education!
Thanks for sharing- what a cool collab between the two of you guys. You both are awesome creators.
Seems like there's always something new to learn from the both of your guys' channels.
Most "white people" are of Indo European descent. The "Aryans/Yamnaya/Indo Europeans" originally came from that area. So it kind of is accurate. Just because the people moved doesn't mean that's a bad descriptor. There are very few people in Europe that don't come from that area, the Basque of Northern Spain come to mind.
Not everybody in the Caucasus are Indo-European though
@petalchild Correct...people move and migrate over time and the reality of subjects like this are far, far more complicated than videos like this make it seem
Yeah alot of words from my language are the same in alot of languages, many norwegian words, english german ect but not slavic, also alot of lookalikes, you can take some person from ireland or england and put him here and he will look like us
@@AnarchAngel1 Agreed
@@johnnyespalahento2431 Can I ask where you're from?
OMGGG im Turkish and I had no idea about this. You channel has taught me so much and I am so grateful for it
I get “you don’t look….” Statement all the time when I was literally born there and so have more than 3 of my generations on both sides
I get "you look georgian / Chechen" all the time, even though I've taken DNA tests and am Scottish, Danish and Lithuanian.
So we trusted the guy who found people beautiful due to the shape of their skulls and decided, “Yeah. I want THAT!”
But he was right since white people are Indo-Europeans and are connected to Iranians, Dravidians and other so-called Aryan(not the Hitler nonsense) races through DNA
@@moderatecanuckHaving ancestry from a certain group doesn't make you that certain group. Everyone has ancestry from Africa since it's where humans originated but that doesn't make everyone African. Just like how Europeans having ancestry from The Caucasus doesn't make them Caucasian. Especially since many in the Caucasus are extremely diverse and don't belong to the same groups. (Many are Turkic, Caucasian, Asian, Mongolian, etc...)
@@moderatecanuckalso another thing indigenous Caucasians aren't indo european to begin with. Only ossetians, trukic and Armenian people are. Who non of them are native.
@@reilaim1223 Which ethnic group in the Caucasus is Mongolian, mate?
@@TimtheEnchanter1121 kalmyks lol. Thats ignoring all the Tukic groups that are direct descendents of Mongols
Its really time the US starts Adapting to the rest of the world instead of expecting the whole earth to adapt to them
Ever since I learned that the Caucasus is an actual region, being referred to as “Caucasian” as a synonym for “White” drives me nuts, especially when I have to select it myself on a demographic form because it’s the only option for “White.” I have German and English or Irish ancestry, which doesn’t make me truly Caucasian.
YESSS!!! finally, I've been screaming at air as a georgian for AGES now to stop calling american white people caucasian...
Mfw 18-19th century race scientists are being proven right tho. The modern genetic landscape of Eurasia was shaped by the Yamnaya people who originated, you guessed it, in the Southern Russian Caucasus region.
Some of those white Americans are from that region though.
@@BigWheel.i think you know what they meant 🤦🏼♀️
Correction. The Yamnaya originated from the Eurasian Steppes NORTH of the Caucasus not IN it. You are clearly mixing Yamnaya culture with Maykop culture. @@DagothUr3672