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What is the difference.
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what is the difference exactly between "white" and "caucasian?" I'm sick of people telling me that I'm caucasian but not white...what the hell does that even mean?

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They are the same thing.....

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There is no difference.

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...there's a difference?

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u are an uhoh oreo. white on the outside, black on in the inside

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They're the same thing.

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same thing.

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lol I guess the people I know are just insane or something.  I really didn't think there was either...but people imply that there is.

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Quote: from charolastra at 9:34 pm on Jan. 2, 2009

...there's a difference?

I was thinking this.

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The difference is none. It's just some political correctness liberals that are trying to find a more suitable word. Don't listen to these people. I'm white, negros are negros.

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i dont know but sameone told me that i am caucasian too

its not thrue because people living on the cauas have usually dark hair and brown eyes


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It's the politically correct term for individual of European descent, its bs actiully becuase "caucasian" refers to someone from the Cacuas mountains.

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Quote: from Afu at 8:18 am on Jan. 2, 2009

It's the politically correct term for individual of European descent, its bs actiully becuase "caucasian" refers to someone from the Cacuas mountains.

Did not know that North Africa, the Middle East and Western Asia were all part of Europe...

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White tends to mean nothern/western Europe, though over time it has started to encompass those from eastern europe as well.  Some question if the southern europeans count as 'white' or not too.

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I've always understood "white", in today's context, to essentially mean anybody from Europe or of European descent (though I do know that down in Southern Europe, it can get messy with drawing a line between who's white and who's not).

Caucasian, however, is slightly different in that includes non-Europeans.  It'd include the people of the Caucuses obviously, who are sometimes considered white (but often are not), it'd include all Semites from Arabs in the Middle East to Berbers in North Africa, the Iranians (who are usually not considered white by virtue of not being European), the non-Turkic peoples in Central Asia, and it often includes the Punjabi people in Pakistan and India.

If you're said to be Caucasian but not white when you are actually European, it basically means you probably have tanned skin and dark hair, while your ethnic origins appear to indicate you're from somewhere in the Mediterranean which is either not exactly European or has historically not had European inhabitants.


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