Even though in the West, “Caucasian” is seen as a synonym for White, the actual meaning of the word is to refer to the people of the Caucasus mountains, many of which would not be seen as European or White due to close historic and cultural ties with Asia and the Iranic and Turkic worlds. The word was appropriated from its actual use by Johann Blumenbach and has since been used in race science to push unscientific ideas of biological race. The reality is race is a social construct, Europeans as all other Homo Sapiens come from Africa. Click the video in the caption for more historical information on why this happened.
A good post, with one error. Race comes from Latin and means roots. Roots are not a social construct. On a macro scale there is one race, on a micro scale there are a few billion races. The important bit is that our roots only matter for medical purposes, nothing else.
@@Andrew-mj5rfReducing the meaning of modern terms to their etymology is deeply misleading and unhelpful. Imagine if I said "carbon comes from Latin Carbō and means charcoal". This statement is correct, but it ignores the modern world, where carbon now has a litany of meanings aside. It seems that you're also conflating race with haplogroups, which again is misleading. Race is socially constructed because it exists as a means for social reproduction to continue. I suggest you look into reading Tithi Bhattacharya.
In the past I've gotten in trouble for telling people not to call white people Caucasian but now I think the best way to go about it is don't invalidate actual Caucasian people by calling white people Caucasian, if that makes sense.
@@ArmageddonIsHere Absolutely. As an Indian person, whenever I heard there's Indians in USA, I always thought of people who immigrate from India. Only when I was a teen did I get to know that natives are called Indians because how every white European back then just wanted to sail to India and loot us, to the point they called every colored person 'Indian' in their way. I think same thing happened to Indonesia where they named it after India, even their language was called 'Hindi' even though it wasn't. White people have stripped all colored people off their heritage. I'm so glad creators like him are now spreading awareness.
fun fact: the term caucasian became a synonym for white when some racist scientist analyzed scull shapes to figure out which was the “prettiest”. the people from the caucus mountains were his favorite, so he said that they were the foundation for the white race, and that was where the use of caucasian was founded
Wtf are you on about? American culture isnt “the norm” goober. You LIVE in america. Go to china and youll see “chinese culture” as norm. Go anywhere and peole will center themselves
And what's funny is if you ask any American they THINK they know exactly what their roots are but most of us are pretty mixed by now. Unless we have paid for DNA testing or grew up in a very strict cultural family that does not mix with any other cultures...which is kinda the opposite of the "American idea of American culture"
@foxracer1703 mine are italian American and French but I live in America so I do my own research I don't believe the government I hate being called Caucasian I'm white that's it white
As a Caucasian from the actual Caucasus this used to confuse me so much as a child. Like I’d see white Americans say they were Caucasian and I’d be like no ?
Armenians and Azeris are not Caucasian and never were. There's nothing wrong with the Term Caucasian = White .. but there's a problem when non Caucasian ethnicities are claiming they are Caucasian, creating confusion.
Troll them. "I'm Caucasian." "Oh wow, so you're like Georgian then?" "I'm not from Georgia, I'm from Kentucky 😡😡" "Oh honey, there's an entire world outside of your states. If you're so Caucasian then can you tell me where the Caucasus mountain range is?"
@@HyLo-ruleGeorgia is Caucasus, and btw native caucasians often look more european bc their anchestors haven't been mixed with arab/ottoman/mongol empires people during the history.
@@Alexandra_Indina What makes someone European is Western hunter gatherers + Aryan/Indo-European steppe + Native European farmer. The modern European skull shape and body shape is all derived from these Aryans who came to Europe from the modern day Russia Ukraine and the Caucasus. But Blonde hair and different eye colours are inherited from the European Farmers. Aryans had black hair and brown eyes.
As a Caucasian I will confirm that we are not literally white. We are really mix of everything. There are very pale skinned white people or tan skined people even yellow skinned people like me and of course mix of that three. We have different traditions from both europeans and asians.
No if your white your fully white yall burnt (dc slang for your trippen ) if your skin tone is mixed with other colors or a different tone color you are mixed not white your mixed not white Caucasian is for true white people pale skin red cheeks ginger hair blonde hair
Dude its just sunlight. People need to stop bending over backwards over this race nonsense. Whites, blacks EVERYBODY. Your race isnt your sole identity
On another note, I don’t like how people originating from Europe are called “white” and people from Africa are called “black.” Like, people don’t go around calling asians yellow. Those are just skin colours, white, black and yellow are not races. Call people European, African, Asian, etc.
Nationality can be problematic too. Catalans are technically Spanish, as in being citizens of Spain. But a Catalan nationalist definitely doesn't wanted to be called Spanish. National / Ethnic identity can be a maze and a mine field.
Plus, it's completely inaccurate. The colour of European skin isn' the same as paper. While African skin isn't the same coal (except of maybe Chad people).
I'm so glad more people are learning this, I've always hated when people call me Caucasian because I am not. Like, if someone put me n a Caucasian person next to each other n told to guess whos Caucasian most people in the west would say me because they think white = caucasian. It's so frustrating and I'm sure it's frustrating for actual Caucasians too.
Then what would you call white people? Most white people who are born in the United States are literally called Caucasian on legal paper and documents, so what would the new name for white people be then? Because Japanese are Asian, Chinese are Asian, because they are in the from the Asia continent, so I'm very curious?
@@JaxsonJett18US isn't entire world, buddy. In Russia "Caucasian" literally means "from Caucasus", a relatively small ethnicity. White people. Also 'white' isn't a homogenous group, just like "European" isn't really a good way to describe a person.
@@AA-cf4esDuh. But the question really refers to white people in English speaking countries I'd imagine, like Canada. England (and neighbors) and Australia would probably be considered European idk. Unless you want to classify white people as White-N. American, White-British.
I'm a mutt who appears very pasty but my doctor won't let me write "terribly pale" so I just bubble in white. I don't love that so many forms ask people to fill in what race we are. It seems strange
Inside the US in terms of legal racial classification, Armenians and everybody else from Caucasus Mountain area are legally classified as white here as well.
@@yeahaboutthatthough3656this has more to do with the fact that west asians and north africans in general are considered white on the census. If i remember correctly that came to be because of a lebanese-american immigrant that claimed that if middle easterners arent white than so wasnt Jesus. Probably because being white meant more rights and respect (at least on paper). Appalled by the association of Jesus with brown people, a new racial classification for SWANA folks came to be. Correct me if im wrong but thats kinda how it went i think
Anglo-Saxon is a huge misnomer as well. Depending where your family hails in England, you’re probably not as “Anglo Saxon” as you think. Northern Brits only have about 10% admixture, while some populations in the south and east have been found to have 40%. Large swaths of Irish, welsh, and Scotts have zero “Anglo Saxon”descent and are mostly descended from the much earlier bell beaker arrivals and celts, with a bit of Norman and Viking invader in the mix Maybe not true in your case, but I’ve seen “Anglo Saxon” applied to any white Protestant American (WASP) when usually that person is actually a mixture of several European ethnic group (usually some Germanic one included, but not always, which makes it totally inaccurate)
@@Aliyaaaa it is important because anglo-saxon isnt correct for a lot of people Lots of people were desendants of vikings and such, not anglo-saxon which are english, which don’t include a lot of people from Europe or Scandinavia etc that would otherwise be classed as white, but not anglo-saxon
@@pogpogpurinn We are not talking about all the people that classify as "white". The point was that the original comment said they are anglo-saxon, so english. The following comment however made in my opinion a interesting but a bit nitpicky destinction that not all people from england are anglo-saxon due to some being mixed descendands. But that is not really relevant, as we usually talk about the predominant ethnicities.
Armenians have made significant contributions to various fields throughout history. Some notable Armenian inventions and achievements include: 1. Color TV - Armen Alchian, an Armenian-American economist, worked on research that led to the invention of color television. 2. MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) - Raymond Damadian, an Armenian-American scientist, developed the first full-body MRI scanner. 3. Flavr Savr Tomato - Armen Tavadian, an Armenian scientist, was involved in the development of the first genetically modified tomato. 4. Adobe Photoshop - Thomas Knoll, an American software engineer of Armenian descent, co-created the popular image editing software. It is important to give attention to the intelligence and achievements of Armenians, as it highlights the contributions of individuals from diverse backgrounds to the global advancement of science, technology, and innovation. By recognizing and celebrating the accomplishments of Armenians and other groups, we can promote diversity, inclusivity, and appreciation for the unique perspectives and talents that different communities bring to the table.
Whites are more close related to Oriental people (Chinese,Korean, Japanese) than indians ...indians and south asians in general are nothing like Europeans
And i am finn - finno-ugric - and i dont get why people think white peoplecare one race . We finno-ugrics have nothing to do with western european and american races.
On government documents, they never specify our race as caucasian. It's "non-Latino", which is usually a stand-in for "white". "Caucasian" does come from one of the original three categories of races on planet earth, being "Caucasoid" (alongside "mongoloid" and "negroid"), and while it's not used anymore, that is the origin of why we refer to ourselves as Caucasian.
It originates as a term for white people in 1790, when America was passing its first immigration laws. They “reinvented” the word to represent people from northern and Western Europe, a blatant focus on whiteness. As an American, I can confidently tell you most Americans do not know this.
@zakir9227 the balkans are not in the caucuses, they used to call people from all over Europe causian when people from England or Spain aren’t even in the caucuses mountains
Because Europeans originate in the Pontic-Caspian steppe, the same as Iranians and North Indians. All of these groups can be classified as Caucasians, along with modern inhabitants
It's simple, all people who have any modern day European DNA in them come from the Indo European who came from the stepp in Kiev... Aka Ukraine all Asian people come from Eurasian stepp. Ine Indo European people not only went west but they went south as well ending in what we not call the middle east before breaking into groups some went more south some went west towards Greece and Italy etc the same happened in Asia so when you have two languages meet up you creat a new one in turn creat a new group of people with new chromosome etc aka called an admixture. My information comes from professors, historians, archaeology finding and DNA.
You dont have a lot of comments yet, but I want to thank you for your content. I have learned a tremendous amount behind the Roma culture and people, and I am so thankful to have come across your content a few years ago. I love learning about history and culture, and I have to say that the education you are providing to people is not only important, but incredible.
There are even Afro Black populations in the Caucuses right now. This part of the world is and has always been very diverse for thousands of years. Herodotus talked about the Colchians being there, a Black as he called them, "Ethiopian people with wooly hair and black skin" America created this Eugenics idea of Caucasian being whyt. It's a silly pseudo scientific racism trope. It's extremely ignorant and I thank you for correcting the record. I love your channel 💪🏿💪🏾💪🏽💪🏼One love💯
True! There are lots of black Africans in Abkhazia that been living there for hundreds of years and they speak both Abkhazian and Russian and also wear the traditional Caucasian clothing “cherkeska”.
Everything about them is so beautiful and ethereal. The hair, clothes, accessories. All the outfits looks like they took their time picking what to wear, so it would be perfect and represent something. I don’t know, I just love cultural* clothing, it’s so special and beautiful. *Is cultural the right word? Please correct me if it’s not, English isn’t my first language
I think using the words traditional, ethnic, or cultural could be used because the ethic and cultural traditions helped influence everything from clothing, religion, and food.
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I absolutely love your videos and as an Armenian, it really pisses me off whenever I have to put on a form what I identify as culturally. There’s usually almost never Middle Eastern and I never know what to put down except white. The problem is that even though that’s my skin color, I’m not white I’m Eastern European bc everyone in America can’t actually define where the Middle East is. The Middle East is literally where Syria and Jordan are it’s that whole area that’s considered middle eastern. So me putting down middle eastern on those forms is still wrong. I showed my mom one of your videos on the word Caucasian and it completely changed her perspective because she realized that for decades Armenians have been called Caucasian even though that’s not even accurate. I showed the same video to my AP World History teacher and she loved it bc she learned something new. Thank you for your channel and for spreading awareness ❤️
Caucasians are NOT North African, at least they were not in Ancient times. That is made up BS to disconnect the true Egyptians from the rest of Africa.
^this. But a reminder of the proto indo europeans. Otherwise know as cromagnon man descendents, who inhabited europe prior. Easiest way to judge ppl is by the slope of the forehead.
Thank you so much for spreading awareness! It boils my blood whenever i see memes with a sound "that's Caucasian, from the mountains of Caucasus" depicting any Karens or just audacious rude people. I'm Circassian and we have such a strong moral code and etiquette it pains me when we're associated with rude and obnoxious people 😢 My people went through a genocide to keep our dignity and we're put in the same category as a woman yelling in a grocery store...
The ones who really are caucasians are the closest to thoses mountains : Georgians, armenians, chechens, ingoushs, dagestans … they are white and some are reallyyyyyy white 😭 some pictures of the vid are inacurate The case of azeris is slightly different btw but today they are also caucasians
No Caucasian is used to denote those of Indo European descent because thats where their earliest ancestors came from..sure there are still White people there, but many are mixed with Asiatic blood.
@TabbyAngel2 yes they do, it's the only race that has a full diverse range while still being one Race. You can be so pale you're almost translucent, white blonde hair and the palest blue eyes to the dark brown eyes, black hair and tan skin. We also have straight, wavy and curly hair.
@@TabbyAngel2 Indo-Europeans are pretty much dead and those of them that invaded parts of the world that are now considered ''Brown'' were in fact much closer to modern day Europeans than modern day Iranians and Indians.
I would love to see you collaborate with nytn on this . She’s done a really interesting series on her channel about who was considered white and when throughout American history specifically. As a mixed roma girl , I’ve learned so much from you about my heritage. Thank you
I would go as far as to say that "white" in itself is an incredibly racist and ignorant way to group people with fair skin instead of recognising how diverse we and our cultures are. Skin colour does not define anyone's culture.
It all started with the racial bone structure template of CAUCASOID (which makes more sense), The Caucasoid race refers to a racial bone structure present among many Europeans, Middle Easterners, Indians (even most of the darker ones), North Africans and Iranians/Afghans. It's called Caucasoid because the oldest example for a Caucasoid shape skull was discovered from the Caucasus mountains. The term Caucasian though is a geographical term more than a racial one.
The problem is that most people fail to understand that “white” was never an actual scientific classification to begin with. There was a time when Irish and Slavic people weren’t considered white. So this isn’t about people being ignorant as much as it is the term “white” expanding and being used to refer to a larger, more diverse group of people, ranging from many people in Latin America to Germany to some people in the Middle East. People are not at all consistent with that their definition of “white” is. Is it someone who is European? Someone who has pale skin? Because some of the people shown in this video would definitely fall under the pale skin category, just like many individuals from the Middle East. Ideally the concept of race should just be abolished altogether, as we should really stop relying on such an antiquated way of thinking and conceptualizing different groups of people. And on one final note, you guys understand that words can have different meanings colloquially, right? Many words grow to refer to a larger, more general group of people over time. I’m not saying that it’s right, as it’s probably invalidating to the people of the caucuses, but it isn’t surprising nor is it really the fault of Americans for having it engrained in their vocabulary.
Thank you!! I am not Caucasian. I am Western European (mostly Dutch and Scottish). The caucasians deserve to be recognized as who they actually are! And most of them are not white!! We have no right to claim another peoples' heritage
I think you misunderstand… no one is trying to claim someone else’s heritage. In America if you are born white, you are labeled caucasian. That is what the US government calls white people, since 1790. Most Americans probably know nothing about any of this. They aren’t trying to claim something they don’t even know anything about.
Actually, you are depending on wether Proto Indo Europeans travelled through the Anatolian region or not. Considering there is no definite answer about this, the only people who are scientifically caucasian are people like Armenians.
We have always classified ourselves as "white" since ancient times, and so have various foreign historical figures. "White" is a very vague term which varies from time and space. Also, you Western Europeans have MANY shades in your countries, including PINK (which is not white at all). You cannot assert who is white or not.
I once got marked fown in an assignment for this. I refered to Europeans as "Caucasian" and the professor said, "This term refers to people from the Caucasus. You mean European." He was an old school academic, terribly precise.
Yamnaya came from the stepp in Ukraine, at one point in time was Russia. The same Russia that every native American ancestors came from. The Siberians are the first people who left Russia and went west to cross the land bridge in the Canada. The inuit people also came out from Russia into Asia who the went into Ukraine. I'll provide link.
as a Georgian, I've been in lots of fights because some americans couldn't just accept that the term caucasian ≠ European / North American the term caucasian belongs to people from the caucasus mountains
The reason why we call white people Caucasians is because we initially believed that whites descended from the Caucasian mountains, but anthropologists now know that it’s more like the Caspian steppe nowadays. Depending if you’re referring to the corded ware culture or the Yamaya.
To be honest those pectures are innacurate to show the appearance of the Caucasians,most of the people on those pictures don't even look Caucasians and some of them aren't even caucasians you mixed photos of turkish,iranians,Azerbaijanis with Caucasians.Тhe appearance of the northern Caucasians differs from the southern Caucasians,we don’t look like each other especially Armenians and Azerbaijanis they are very different from the rest of Caucasians...We Caucasians have different shades of skin from light to olive skin,from blue eyes to brown,from blond hair to dark like the inhabitants of europe or the middle east
These people would fit right in in Spain, southern Italy, Southwestern France, Greece, Macidonia, Romania, North Africa etc. They look white to me. Not blonde but brunette.
@anaesthete5592 A few years ago, I went down a rabbit hole researching the alt right, which led to neo Nazis and original Nazis and fascist in general. I could see far-right organizations were gaining ground in multiple countries, and I wanted to be educated. When I the etymology of the word Aryan I had a true WTF moment. I know they lie and misrepresent everything, but to learn, they lie about the names they chose to call themselves, which proves they live in a house of cards.
atp i don't think 'aryan' should even be used at all 💀 it was changed to be extremely racist and antisemetic. it's the ideology that led to the holocaust
@anaesthete5592 i'm aware. i'm referring to the more common association of 'aryan' with racism, since the use of 'they' in OP's comment is referring to westerners. that is what my comment was built off of. areas with a long history of using the word obviously aren't going to associate it with racism, but to westerners (who OP and I were talking abt), that is not the case. i didn't mean to say people with a different history of the word should stop using it, so that's my bad.
As a fellow circassian (one of Caucasus native nations), also need to be mentioned thats Caucasians are actually mostly white or mixed. We have our own group of sub races Balkan-Caucasian if im not mistaken. Depends on ethnicities, some of them turks, have asian background or more arabic and islamic influence and etc. Also Caucasus divided by the mountains in 2 parts - North and South Caucasus. North is (unfortunately) is a part of Russia. South consists of different Countries. Please, people lets learn about the world more, educate ourselves and respect each other💚 Huge thanks for this video
@@Pythoner Russians literally genocided Circassians to annex their land and Chechens in recent memory literally fought a war over being forced to be part of Russia.
@@genuscorvid All true, but with Circassia it's not like history stopped at that moment. They had good relations with the authorities after the Bolshevik revolution and got some of their territory back. Chechens yeah they fought a war, and then got hijacked by radical Islamists fighting their own battle against Russia; so they made a choice to side with the Russian authorities during the 2nd war and that arrangement has held up.
Girl, my entire life l’ve thought I wasn’t cauacsian and that it meant white, then the other day at the optometrist on their file it said I was caucasian. I was shocked.
White people are not Caucasian! White does not equal Caucasian! Thats what this whole video is about! Only those from Caucasus region are Caucasian. Irrespective of colour of their skin. If a white person is not from Caucasus, be they from Europe or anywhere else are not Caucasian! And can not be referred to as such!
White people as a group are NOT and do NOT equal Caucasian! It is a term reserved for people from Caucasus region only! Whether they are brown or white skin. If a person isnt not from Caucasus, be they from Europe or anywhere else, then they definitely are NOT Caucasus. And can not be referred to as such!
How are Himalayas related to Caucasus? They are two totally separate geographic areas. If you are not from Caucasus, you can not be Caucasian. Full stop.
I’m American and Black. This is what I was taught and maybe another poster can check out the history behind these names…There are three main racial classifications, Caucasoid(White), Mongoloid(Asian), and Negroid(Black). Some people fit under more than one classification or one of the three mentioned here.
Race isn’t actually real, but there are some gene pools that clustered with similar features in certain regions… there should be way more classifications than those 3 if they want to get technically, but even then those would just be old gene pools that “originated” that way… over time when these pools intermingle we become like Mr potato heads.. skin color/eye color/hair color/hair type/eyes/skull shape and features can mix and match almost at random…. That guy who came up with those 3 was basing on primarily skull shape.
..... Uh no.. I'm saying this because of you break down by DNA and archaeology you go back to indo European, they come from the stepp went as far as north Africa and all in the west. Eurasian people who went into Asia and the Middle East, then sub Saharan Africa... Your true black people... The admixture of east, west and north Africa is of Middle Eastern aka indo European/Eurasian. These are the correct terms. Anything else is well for political, religious, or just plan racism one of the three. For as much as we all have been lied to I rather pass along the truth that I have done years worth or research from listening to different sources. And when I say I as a person who is white lives in America have done not only my DNA but also looked into hologroups of r1a r1b l1a j1a etc the trace for african alone starts in sub Sahara and ends in Africa while the j1a came from the middle east into Africa the others are in Europe going back to tte stepp... J1a also went west as well.
Bruh,the word caucasian refers to someone who descendeds from the Caucasus and the white indo-Europeans descend from the Caucasus,as for the current inhabitants of the Caucasus,Armenians(with some turkic dna though) are white,Georgians are white and even though Azeris call themselves turkic,there mixed so much with other white tribes that they only have a minority of turkic dna(llike the inhabitants of Turkey) and whites dont all have the same phenotypes there are whites with more ligher skin,lighter eyes,lighter hair color and some with darker skin,eyes,hair color.Also for the idiots in the comments saying the Caucasus is in Asia,it is accually in Europe,read a map and even if it was,there are many whites in Asia like the Iranians and the North Indians.
I’m mostly Italian and Irish but learned I’m also middle eastern/ from the caucuses and honestly I got to learn even more about racism and different cultures I wouldn’t have thought to look into otherwise because I didn’t know certain things at all
That's great to hear that you're exploring and learning more about your heritage and different cultures! Discovering new aspects of your ancestry can be a rewarding journey that opens up new perspectives and opportunities for understanding and appreciating diversity. Exploring different cultures and learning about the experiences, traditions, and histories of various communities can help foster empathy, compassion, and respect for others. It can also provide valuable insights into the complexities and interconnectedness of our world. Racism and discrimination can unfortunately be prevalent in society, but education and awareness can help challenge stereotypes, dismantle prejudices, and promote inclusivity and understanding. By learning more about different cultures and sharing knowledge and experiences with others, we can contribute to building a more tolerant and interconnected global community. Keep exploring, asking questions, and engaging with diverse cultures and perspectives. Your curiosity and openness can lead to greater awareness, empathy, and appreciation for the rich tapestry of human experiences in our world.
I actually have ancestry from that region. All European/Eurasian people's have their indigenous clothing and we all look more ethnic dressed in it. Modernity has just stripped us. Whites didn't arrive on spaceships the people you call white were indigenous to somewhere and just as tribal with extensive traditions and ornate and complicated dress. We get treated like we are indigenous to nowhere.
Huh, I actually never knew this. Thank you so much for the info. I’ll definitely share and make sure all my friends aren’t ignorant to this either. Its crazy that we’re so used to what we were taught especially here in America where the education system isn’t so great.
You shouldn't even spread knowledge taken from a guy in a random video, because he doesn't seem like a very studied person. Caucasian is almost synonymous with Indo-European, which represents a family of populations, of which both he and Western Europeans are part, together with: Indians, Iranians, Pakistanis, Slavs (Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians..)! You can find the origin by studying languages, etymologies, idioms, alphabets... having said this, ethnic groups are a biodiversity and I like to think of them as a world full of flowers of different colours. Imagine if there was only one flower and only one color
Ily so much for this. I am Chechen and it means I am Nakh, Indigenous Caucasian. I come from a small tribe myself. It's really silly to hear about my "whiteness" with such a background as a Caucasian.
So so so true!!! This is why I got overly excited when I got asked to specify my ethnicity on a form. Most of the time I only get Caucasian or White, when I’m Dutch.
Like yeah, European and Caucasian are not the same thing, we literally live in the different parts of the world (coming from a European). Let's respect each others heritages
@@sayonara5160 He is probably just a Circassian, there is a huge diaspora of them in the Middle East, especially Turkey but other former Ottoman provinces because they fled the Russian conquest in the 19th century.
We understand Northwestern European immigrants in America are not "Caucasian", but what the real Caucasians in Central and Eastern Europe don't always understand about the US Census and US immigration law is this: White is a legal racial classification and is an umbrella category for European people who who are neither black, Asian, Indigenous American or Pacific Islander. There is technically also another group that has been added for legal filings and demographic records, but is not used as often and it is Middle Eastern/North African (MENA). If you immigrate here but don't belong to those groups, and you are from anywhere in Europe, you are legally classified as "white" like all other Europeans. You may not descent from the British, Germans or any of the Saxons or Scandinavians, but even the real Caucasians are still "white" here in terms of US immigration law. Even the Kardashian are legally white under US law even though they are Armenian ethnically.
Yeah this thing about SWANA people being classified as white in the US (and im aware that some look white) has a particular history actually. Its because a lebanese immigrant in the early 1900s said that if he wasnt white, than neither Jesus was. Christian led conservative governments had to include SWANA folks as white because the possibility of admitting that their beloved Jesus was a person of color was too appalling
colonizer is also a good term since y’all came from Central Asia and aren’t from the Caucasus at all. Anatolia is literally a latinized version of a Greek word. Anatolia is Greek lmfao
The caucasians are PREDOMINANTLY white, not FULLY white. The caucasians are only partially white because caucasia COLLECTIVELY is europes gateway to the middle east. Thats why the Caucasus have unique genetic make up and very unique languages!
Arabs, Persians, and North Indians are also considered Caucasian. A more accurate term would be better, but currently, Caucasian means all those + Europeans
I have never yet seen men or women in traditional clothes, who didn’t just radiate a different type of beauty! I am always stunned by the beauty of different cultural styles.
I'm Assyrian, Caucasian is white, theyre white people from a different region. Europeans are also white, from a different region than caucasians. The more you know...
I had no idea that Caucasian didn’t mean white! Thank-you so much for this. I never used the word anyway as I thought it was racist but I’m completely wrong!
period! i’m half georgian and half of my family looks eastern white, typical pale with blue eyes and the other half very clearly have more distinct facial features wether it’s their nose or their eyes, shit i got some distant uncles that do the full blown grown out beard + head wrap
The way I checked off “Other” in HS when my SAT & ACT asked for my ethnicity bc I didn’t know what Caucasian meant. 💀 If you checked off other you had to fill in the blank. so I just wrote “White,” BECAUSE girl. I’m white. 🤣
On official forms and surveys, I always check "other" under ethnicity if white isn't an option since I learned this a while ago. So much deeply engrained misinformation floating around used on a regular basis.
I know your videos are about history and culture and raising awareness but you just look so good I think you really deserve a compliment! You are looking handsome, beautiful, and wonderful.
The caucasus region is europe's most ethnically diverse regions conisting over over 500 ethnicities, even more fascinating most of these ethnicities (circassians, chechens, georgians, avars etc) are some of the last living pre-indo european populations
I feel like this is an English thing to begin with. In my mother language Caucasian would definitely mean ppl from the Caucasus and nothing else. I came across this meaning while learning English.
I’m a polish person with blonde hair and blue eyes, and for most people I’d be considered simply Caucasian white, but within white nationalist movements, I’d be considered a subhuman Slav
That's why the term "white" is extremely flawed. It varies from time and space, and is not consistent. Maybe people should abandon using the term "white" to describe themselves, and instead, use their ethnicity.
This is a strange misconception about what happened in the 30’s. Slavs were also national socialists, like the Ustace in Croatia. Also aligned with Germany was Bulgaria and Slovakia
i love your videos. thankfully i haven't heard Caucasian being used as a synonym for white nearly as much in the past 5 or so years, but i definitely still hear it. so many people didn't want to use terms like "white" and "Black" so they'd use terms like "Caucasian" and "African American" when they weren't actually accurate in the context they were being used. not every Caucasian person is white and not every Black person in America is from Africa. it's good to know these things so I appreciate you spreading this knowledge with us
The Aryans came from Europe, they invaded India and Pakistan, destroying the Indus River civilization. This is why many in Pakistan and Northen India have light eyes and some times light hair.
@@rollinghippo2940 I don't what you mean by that, because dravidian is linguistic family and they are the second largest in India so clearly most Indians are not Dravidian
@@rpoutine3271 they came centuries after the collapse of indus valley cvilization from central Asia not Europe and the light hair and light eyes not always associated with "Aryans" because the most light eyed and light haired people are not the most steppe shifted people in the subcontinent it mostly the High BMAC ancestry, endogamy and $exu@! selection which leads to such traits in the Indian subcontinent
Assyrians aren't Caucasian, though???? Armenians, your closest relatives (genetically speaking) barely qualify as well. You are both Middle Eastern ethnic groups.
Correct. We are genetically most close to our cousins the Assyrian (proudly!) The confusion is likely the modern day country of Armenia which is all we have left of our homeland. This area is inclusive of part of the Southern Caucus region but does not represent the entire area of historic Armenia which was deeper within the middle east. We are both middle eastern ethnic groups. The Caucus mountains are also part of the middle east. The Caucus mountains are not just in Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. They are in Iran and Russia and Turkey. The greater Caucus mountains are in Russia region. The lesser are in the middle east area. I am glad you noticed this. Most people don't look past a glance at us.
Besides the racial theories, it has something to do with where the proto-Indo-Europeans (i.e. the ancestors of modern European populations) formed, before migrating Westward into Europe (and other places). It was in the Caucasus and the area North of the Caucasus. _"A recent analysis by [Prof. David W.] Anthony (2019) also suggests a genetic origin of proto-Indo-Europeans (of the Yamnaya culture) in the Eastern European steppe north of the Caucasus, deriving from a mixture of Eastern European Hunter-Gatherers (EHGs) and hunter-gatherers from the Caucasus (CHGs)."_
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Even though in the West, “Caucasian” is seen as a synonym for White, the actual meaning of the word is to refer to the people of the Caucasus mountains, many of which would not be seen as European or White due to close historic and cultural ties with Asia and the Iranic and Turkic worlds. The word was appropriated from its actual use by Johann Blumenbach and has since been used in race science to push unscientific ideas of biological race. The reality is race is a social construct, Europeans as all other Homo Sapiens come from Africa.
Click the video in the caption for more historical information on why this happened.
A good post, with one error. Race comes from Latin and means roots. Roots are not a social construct.
On a macro scale there is one race, on a micro scale there are a few billion races.
The important bit is that our roots only matter for medical purposes, nothing else.
They are white though
@@Andrew-mj5rfReducing the meaning of modern terms to their etymology is deeply misleading and unhelpful. Imagine if I said "carbon comes from Latin Carbō and means charcoal". This statement is correct, but it ignores the modern world, where carbon now has a litany of meanings aside. It seems that you're also conflating race with haplogroups, which again is misleading. Race is socially constructed because it exists as a means for social reproduction to continue. I suggest you look into reading Tithi Bhattacharya.
Race is not a social construct ,race is real. I don't consider blacks the same race.
@@ConfusedBassGuitar-yb5dc it's not a biological thing though. It largely is a social construct
In the past I've gotten in trouble for telling people not to call white people Caucasian but now I think the best way to go about it is don't invalidate actual Caucasian people by calling white people Caucasian, if that makes sense.
The same applies when Native Americans are called Indians. Both groups are denied their identities.
@@ArmageddonIsHere Absolutely. As an Indian person, whenever I heard there's Indians in USA, I always thought of people who immigrate from India. Only when I was a teen did I get to know that natives are called Indians because how every white European back then just wanted to sail to India and loot us, to the point they called every colored person 'Indian' in their way. I think same thing happened to Indonesia where they named it after India, even their language was called 'Hindi' even though it wasn't.
White people have stripped all colored people off their heritage. I'm so glad creators like him are now spreading awareness.
@@dataexpunged6969It was less about looting and more about finding new trade routes after the Ottomans made it very hard to trade
@@678fireplace
So?
Soon enough white people won’t even be considered by people my liberals.
fun fact: the term caucasian became a synonym for white when some racist scientist analyzed scull shapes to figure out which was the “prettiest”. the people from the caucus mountains were his favorite, so he said that they were the foundation for the white race, and that was where the use of caucasian was founded
SCIENCE!!, lol. A someone said "Racism is a scholarly affair". So many books and thesis written with bad intent. So many lies.
He was analyzing skulls to determine which he thought were the prettiest??
Real weirdo behavior
Idk about that
We are related to them
@@Anonymous-uw4sr Doesn't mean you are them.
I have Welsh ancestry, doesn't mean I am Welsh.
Im tires of American culture being the norm on the internet, their view on ethnicity and race is so narrow
As an American I don't claim to be what I'm not that's the government it's not narrow you sound narrow minded
Wtf are you on about? American culture isnt “the norm” goober. You LIVE in america.
Go to china and youll see “chinese culture” as norm. Go anywhere and peole will center themselves
And what's funny is if you ask any American they THINK they know exactly what their roots are but most of us are pretty mixed by now. Unless we have paid for DNA testing or grew up in a very strict cultural family that does not mix with any other cultures...which is kinda the opposite of the "American idea of American culture"
@foxracer1703 mine are italian American and French but I live in America so I do my own research I don't believe the government I hate being called Caucasian I'm white that's it white
True. Here saying “white people” only means white Americans, leaving out a diverse range of so many different cultures and people
As a Caucasian from the actual Caucasus this used to confuse me so much as a child. Like I’d see white Americans say they were Caucasian and I’d be like no ?
@1694cgrntThat stems from racist theories of some old German lol…
Armenians and Azeris are not Caucasian and never were. There's nothing wrong with the Term Caucasian = White .. but there's a problem when non Caucasian ethnicities are claiming they are Caucasian, creating confusion.
@@qwomlee6058 That is not theory, it is the truth in anthropology
@1694cgrntSo... You bought into Samuel Morton's scientific racism. LMAO, bad look.
Troll them.
"I'm Caucasian."
"Oh wow, so you're like Georgian then?"
"I'm not from Georgia, I'm from Kentucky 😡😡"
"Oh honey, there's an entire world outside of your states. If you're so Caucasian then can you tell me where the Caucasus mountain range is?"
I love how the photos you included were very diverse from the Caucasus region
Thanks for letting me know that’s were all the ugly women live
As a Georgian I'm in love with this too❤
georgia is eurasia and many ppl there seem to have euro features??
@@HyLo-ruleGeorgia is Caucasus, and btw native caucasians often look more european bc their anchestors haven't been mixed with arab/ottoman/mongol empires people during the history.
@@Alexandra_Indina What makes someone European is Western hunter gatherers + Aryan/Indo-European steppe + Native European farmer.
The modern European skull shape and body shape is all derived from these Aryans who came to Europe from the modern day Russia Ukraine and the Caucasus.
But Blonde hair and different eye colours are inherited from the European Farmers. Aryans had black hair and brown eyes.
As a Caucasian I will confirm that we are not literally white. We are really mix of everything. There are very pale skinned white people or tan skined people even yellow skinned people like me and of course mix of that three. We have different traditions from both europeans and asians.
I second this.
But my question though is what are white people? Mixes of everything so is white a race?
@1694cgrntyou have very bad education lol. Genetical distance between some people population is more than between wolfs and cayotes
No if your white your fully white yall burnt (dc slang for your trippen ) if your skin tone is mixed with other colors or a different tone color you are mixed not white your mixed not white Caucasian is for true white people pale skin red cheeks ginger hair blonde hair
Dude its just sunlight.
People need to stop bending over backwards over this race nonsense. Whites, blacks EVERYBODY.
Your race isnt your sole identity
On another note, I don’t like how people originating from Europe are called “white” and people from Africa are called “black.” Like, people don’t go around calling asians yellow. Those are just skin colours, white, black and yellow are not races. Call people European, African, Asian, etc.
Or even better - call people by their nationalities. The cultural background can tell you much more about a person than their skin colour imho
@@khboychuk4980 fr
Nationality can be problematic too. Catalans are technically Spanish, as in being citizens of Spain. But a Catalan nationalist definitely doesn't wanted to be called Spanish. National / Ethnic identity can be a maze and a mine field.
So true
Plus, it's completely inaccurate. The colour of European skin isn' the same as paper. While African skin isn't the same coal (except of maybe Chad people).
I'm so glad more people are learning this, I've always hated when people call me Caucasian because I am not. Like, if someone put me n a Caucasian person next to each other n told to guess whos Caucasian most people in the west would say me because they think white = caucasian. It's so frustrating and I'm sure it's frustrating for actual Caucasians too.
Then what would you call white people? Most white people who are born in the United States are literally called Caucasian on legal paper and documents, so what would the new name for white people be then? Because Japanese are Asian, Chinese are Asian, because they are in the from the Asia continent, so I'm very curious?
@@JaxsonJett18 I'd just call us white people. Don't need a fancy name.
@@JaxsonJett18US isn't entire world, buddy.
In Russia "Caucasian" literally means "from Caucasus", a relatively small ethnicity.
White people. Also 'white' isn't a homogenous group, just like "European" isn't really a good way to describe a person.
@@AA-cf4esDuh. But the question really refers to white people in English speaking countries I'd imagine, like Canada. England (and neighbors) and Australia would probably be considered European idk. Unless you want to classify white people as
White-N. American, White-British.
I'm a mutt who appears very pasty but my doctor won't let me write "terribly pale" so I just bubble in white. I don't love that so many forms ask people to fill in what race we are. It seems strange
As an Armenian, thank you!!
Parev! Hope you’re well!
Inside the US in terms of legal racial classification, Armenians and everybody else from Caucasus Mountain area are legally classified as white here as well.
@@yeahaboutthatthough3656this has more to do with the fact that west asians and north africans in general are considered white on the census. If i remember correctly that came to be because of a lebanese-american immigrant that claimed that if middle easterners arent white than so wasnt Jesus. Probably because being white meant more rights and respect (at least on paper). Appalled by the association of Jesus with brown people, a new racial classification for SWANA folks came to be. Correct me if im wrong but thats kinda how it went i think
Salam aleikum i love Armenia Alhamdulilah
Me too. Parev jan! 🇦🇲
And this is why my grandparents stressed that we were Anglo-Saxon, not Caucasian. Thanks for explaining it to another generation ❤
Anglo-Saxon is a huge misnomer as well. Depending where your family hails in England, you’re probably not as “Anglo Saxon” as you think. Northern Brits only have about 10% admixture, while some populations in the south and east have been found to have 40%. Large swaths of Irish, welsh, and Scotts have zero “Anglo Saxon”descent and are mostly descended from the much earlier bell beaker arrivals and celts, with a bit of Norman and Viking invader in the mix
Maybe not true in your case, but I’ve seen “Anglo Saxon” applied to any white Protestant American (WASP) when usually that person is actually a mixture of several European ethnic group (usually some Germanic one included, but not always, which makes it totally inaccurate)
@@LGrian Appreciate your input but I dont think these details are that relevant
@@Aliyaaaa it is important because anglo-saxon isnt correct for a lot of people
Lots of people were desendants of vikings and such, not anglo-saxon which are english, which don’t include a lot of people from Europe or Scandinavia etc that would otherwise be classed as white, but not anglo-saxon
@@pogpogpurinn We are not talking about all the people that classify as "white". The point was that the original comment said they are anglo-saxon, so english. The following comment however made in my opinion a interesting but a bit nitpicky destinction that not all people from england are anglo-saxon due to some being mixed descendands. But that is not really relevant, as we usually talk about the predominant ethnicities.
@1694cgrnt Which is what I didnt do as well, was my comment that unclear?? I dont care about american race theory
I'm from Georgia 🇬🇪 and still don't get why they call European-origin white people "caucasian" here in the U.S.
Armenians have made significant contributions to various fields throughout history. Some notable Armenian inventions and achievements include:
1. Color TV - Armen Alchian, an Armenian-American economist, worked on research that led to the invention of color television.
2. MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) - Raymond Damadian, an Armenian-American scientist, developed the first full-body MRI scanner.
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4. Adobe Photoshop - Thomas Knoll, an American software engineer of Armenian descent, co-created the popular image editing software.
It is important to give attention to the intelligence and achievements of Armenians, as it highlights the contributions of individuals from diverse backgrounds to the global advancement of science, technology, and innovation. By recognizing and celebrating the accomplishments of Armenians and other groups, we can promote diversity, inclusivity, and appreciation for the unique perspectives and talents that different communities bring to the table.
Because Europeans originate in the Pontic-Caspian steppe via the Yamnaya, along with Iranians and North Indians
Whites are more close related to Oriental people (Chinese,Korean, Japanese) than indians ...indians and south asians in general are nothing like Europeans
And i am finn - finno-ugric - and i dont get why people think white peoplecare one race . We finno-ugrics have nothing to do with western european and american races.
On government documents, they never specify our race as caucasian. It's "non-Latino", which is usually a stand-in for "white". "Caucasian" does come from one of the original three categories of races on planet earth, being "Caucasoid" (alongside "mongoloid" and "negroid"), and while it's not used anymore, that is the origin of why we refer to ourselves as Caucasian.
I've always wondered why we're called Caucasian when that's an actual people.
It originates as a term for white people in 1790, when America was passing its first immigration laws. They “reinvented” the word to represent people from northern and Western Europe, a blatant focus on whiteness. As an American, I can confidently tell you most Americans do not know this.
@zakir9227 the balkans are not in the caucuses, they used to call people from all over Europe causian when people from England or Spain aren’t even in the caucuses mountains
Because Europeans originate in the Pontic-Caspian steppe, the same as Iranians and North Indians. All of these groups can be classified as Caucasians, along with modern inhabitants
It's simple, all people who have any modern day European DNA in them come from the Indo European who came from the stepp in Kiev... Aka Ukraine all Asian people come from Eurasian stepp. Ine Indo European people not only went west but they went south as well ending in what we not call the middle east before breaking into groups some went more south some went west towards Greece and Italy etc the same happened in Asia so when you have two languages meet up you creat a new one in turn creat a new group of people with new chromosome etc aka called an admixture. My information comes from professors, historians, archaeology finding and DNA.
@@Recartloaded that because they share a phenotype
You dont have a lot of comments yet, but I want to thank you for your content. I have learned a tremendous amount behind the Roma culture and people, and I am so thankful to have come across your content a few years ago. I love learning about history and culture, and I have to say that the education you are providing to people is not only important, but incredible.
Yes, I so agree with everything you have said here. I have learned so much from this channel too!
There are even Afro Black populations in the Caucuses right now. This part of the world is and has always been very diverse for thousands of years. Herodotus talked about the Colchians being there, a Black as he called them, "Ethiopian people with wooly hair and black skin" America created this Eugenics idea of Caucasian being whyt. It's a silly pseudo scientific racism trope. It's extremely ignorant and I thank you for correcting the record. I love your channel 💪🏿💪🏾💪🏽💪🏼One love💯
True! There are lots of black Africans in Abkhazia that been living there for hundreds of years and they speak both Abkhazian and Russian and also wear the traditional Caucasian clothing “cherkeska”.
Why say whyt?
Actually using the term Caucasian to refer to white people was started by Germans, not Americans.
true, for example, there's a literal region in turkey where the native turks have black skin.
Those blacks were slaves who were bring here by trade not native population and they are only among abkhazians not in other parts of the Caucasus
In Europe, Caucasian is just the word for being Caucasian, not for being white.
Europe sucks
Everything about them is so beautiful and ethereal. The hair, clothes, accessories. All the outfits looks like they took their time picking what to wear, so it would be perfect and represent something. I don’t know, I just love cultural* clothing, it’s so special and beautiful.
*Is cultural the right word? Please correct me if it’s not, English isn’t my first language
I think using the words traditional, ethnic, or cultural could be used because the ethic and cultural traditions helped influence everything from clothing, religion, and food.
You should watch their dances. Incredibly beautiful!
Kurdish people are from mountains of Caucasus! Look at the kurdish clothes, dances and tradition! Beautiful
Да только они не носят такую одежду, они мусульмане и одевают хиджаб или же паранджу, а это просто фотосессия
Armenia has a rich history of innovation and invention, with many notable contributions to various fields. Some famous Armenian inventions include:
1. Eye drops: Armenian ophthalmologist and inventor Dr. Armen Sergeevich developed the world's first eye drops to treat glaucoma and other eye conditions.
2. Color television: Armenian-American engineer George Adomian played a key role in developing color television technology while working at CBS Labs.
3. MRI scanner: Dr. Raymond Damadian, an Armenian-American scientist, invented the first MRI scanner, revolutionizing the field of medical imaging.
4. The ARM architecture: Developed by Armenian-British engineer Sophie Wilson and her team, the ARM architecture is used in a wide range of electronic devices, including smartphones and tablets.
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I absolutely love your videos and as an Armenian, it really pisses me off whenever I have to put on a form what I identify as culturally. There’s usually almost never Middle Eastern and I never know what to put down except white. The problem is that even though that’s my skin color, I’m not white I’m Eastern European bc everyone in America can’t actually define where the Middle East is. The Middle East is literally where Syria and Jordan are it’s that whole area that’s considered middle eastern. So me putting down middle eastern on those forms is still wrong.
I showed my mom one of your videos on the word Caucasian and it completely changed her perspective because she realized that for decades Armenians have been called Caucasian even though that’s not even accurate. I showed the same video to my AP World History teacher and she loved it bc she learned something new. Thank you for your channel and for spreading awareness ❤️
We are not Caucasians Armenians are middle eastern the “Armenian highlands” is in the Middle East close to caucuses but not caucasian
You can always put decline to state. No one cares
Armenians are not Eastern European. We are Near Eastern / Middle Eastern / West Asian.
@@grapeleafgrapeleaf right
Caucasians are people from Europe, Middle-East, Asia, and North Africa. We all share common ancestors. It’s really not this deep.
Caucasian are from Caucasus. Same way as Europeans are from Europe and Asian are from Asia.
Caucasians are NOT North African, at least they were not in Ancient times. That is made up BS to disconnect the true Egyptians from the rest of Africa.
@@Groza2222 Asians and Europeans also came from that same region before migrating to what is now Europe and Asia.
@@Groza2222Modern Europeans are descendants of the Indo-Europeans who migrated into Europe and Asia from the Pointic-Caspian steppe
^this. But a reminder of the proto indo europeans. Otherwise know as cromagnon man descendents, who inhabited europe prior.
Easiest way to judge ppl is by the slope of the forehead.
Thank you so much for spreading awareness! It boils my blood whenever i see memes with a sound "that's Caucasian, from the mountains of Caucasus" depicting any Karens or just audacious rude people. I'm Circassian and we have such a strong moral code and etiquette it pains me when we're associated with rude and obnoxious people 😢 My people went through a genocide to keep our dignity and we're put in the same category as a woman yelling in a grocery store...
leave if you don’t like white people then lmfao
Return to your native land and spend less energy concerning yourself about American internet memes
Caucasian is a very broad demographic that encompasses many nationalities and ethnicities.
Same with "Asian" and "African"!
@@Kingdom_Of_Dreams true. I’m “part Asian” but specifically Indian, which is very different from Japanese (for example).
There can be white mixed, passing and white Caucasian. However Caucasians are definitely not predominantly white.
Thank you Florian
Who are "white"? I mean caucasians are fair than most southern Europeans who are considered whites
The ones who really are caucasians are the closest to thoses mountains : Georgians, armenians, chechens, ingoushs, dagestans … they are white and some are reallyyyyyy white 😭 some pictures of the vid are inacurate
The case of azeris is slightly different btw but today they are also caucasians
@@mlletamina1657 haha they even tend to be whiter than white tbh 😭 although Armenians and azeris tend to be more dark skinned !!!
@@mlletamina1657well clearly the ones in this video aren’t.
Because it's cherry picked
Literally look up Ramzan Kadyrov or Khabib Nurmagomedov or Said Nurmagomedov
No Caucasian is used to denote those of Indo European descent because thats where their earliest ancestors came from..sure there are still White people there, but many are mixed with Asiatic blood.
Indo-Europeans come in a range of skin tones, hair tones, eye colours and features. This has always been the case, even since ancient times.
@TabbyAngel2 yes they do, it's the only race that has a full diverse range while still being one Race. You can be so pale you're almost translucent, white blonde hair and the palest blue eyes to the dark brown eyes, black hair and tan skin. We also have straight, wavy and curly hair.
Yes, basically Europeans, Iranians and North Indians along with modern inhabitants of the Caucasus
@@TabbyAngel2 Indo-Europeans are pretty much dead and those of them that invaded parts of the world that are now considered ''Brown'' were in fact much closer to modern day Europeans than modern day Iranians and Indians.
Lol North Indians having ancestors of sun why we will have caussuas tribes no we don't have any relationship with causcaus@@Abc-qq3pp
They all look like princesses and queens ❤
I would love to see you collaborate with nytn on this . She’s done a really interesting series on her channel about who was considered white and when throughout American history specifically. As a mixed roma girl , I’ve learned so much from you about my heritage. Thank you
Do you have a link to her channel?
There was a rapper from my city (rest in peace ) named the Jacka who is Muslim and he actually spoke about this in his lyrics before he passed
I would go as far as to say that "white" in itself is an incredibly racist and ignorant way to group people with fair skin instead of recognising how diverse we and our cultures are. Skin colour does not define anyone's culture.
It's really American to divide everyone by skin tone. I think it's awful they export their culture on to the world.
True
Races are racist
Call people by their ethnic or national origins
@@Boconnor401.тогда скажите это своим афромериканцам, пусть они не называют их белыми
It all started with the racial bone structure template of CAUCASOID (which makes more sense), The Caucasoid race refers to a racial bone structure present among many Europeans, Middle Easterners, Indians (even most of the darker ones), North Africans and Iranians/Afghans. It's called Caucasoid because the oldest example for a Caucasoid shape skull was discovered from the Caucasus mountains. The term Caucasian though is a geographical term more than a racial one.
Yeah and that whole ass study comes from pseudoscientific racism and is widely discredited by scientists and anthropologists alike.
You are on a ROLL!! And I love it! ❤🎉
The problem is that most people fail to understand that “white” was never an actual scientific classification to begin with. There was a time when Irish and Slavic people weren’t considered white. So this isn’t about people being ignorant as much as it is the term “white” expanding and being used to refer to a larger, more diverse group of people, ranging from many people in Latin America to Germany to some people in the Middle East. People are not at all consistent with that their definition of “white” is. Is it someone who is European? Someone who has pale skin? Because some of the people shown in this video would definitely fall under the pale skin category, just like many individuals from the Middle East. Ideally the concept of race should just be abolished altogether, as we should really stop relying on such an antiquated way of thinking and conceptualizing different groups of people. And on one final note, you guys understand that words can have different meanings colloquially, right? Many words grow to refer to a larger, more general group of people over time. I’m not saying that it’s right, as it’s probably invalidating to the people of the caucuses, but it isn’t surprising nor is it really the fault of Americans for having it engrained in their vocabulary.
I’m Irish and have Scandinavian Saami blood as well, and I don’t consider myself white
@@iLLEly0n depends on how we define white, I suppose.
My ancestors came to America from Italy 120 years ago. Italians were not considered white then.....
''White'' Today is pretty much a cluster of all European races.
Thank you!! I am not Caucasian. I am Western European (mostly Dutch and Scottish). The caucasians deserve to be recognized as who they actually are! And most of them are not white!! We have no right to claim another peoples' heritage
I think you misunderstand… no one is trying to claim someone else’s heritage. In America if you are born white, you are labeled caucasian. That is what the US government calls white people, since 1790. Most Americans probably know nothing about any of this. They aren’t trying to claim something they don’t even know anything about.
@@RtimusCFrogNo, they understand.
You’re literally Caucasian. Europeans, Middle-Easterners, Asians, and North Africans are all of Caucasians.
Actually, you are depending on wether Proto Indo Europeans travelled through the Anatolian region or not. Considering there is no definite answer about this, the only people who are scientifically caucasian are people like Armenians.
We have always classified ourselves as "white" since ancient times, and so have various foreign historical figures. "White" is a very vague term which varies from time and space. Also, you Western Europeans have MANY shades in your countries, including PINK (which is not white at all). You cannot assert who is white or not.
"The reality is race is a social construct..." tell that to the Jews, buddy!
Caucasoid includes Europeans too
I once got marked fown in an assignment for this. I refered to Europeans as "Caucasian" and the professor said, "This term refers to people from the Caucasus. You mean European." He was an old school academic, terribly precise.
Why terribly precise? Not happy precise
@@ronnana694 It's just an expression. In this case, "terribly" just means "very" and has no negative meaning at all.
@@gemmeldrakes2758 you are too smart for me
Your professor is ignorant of why ''Europeans'' are called ''Caucasians'' in the first place. Search ''Indo Europeans''.
Most white people are around 50% Yamnaya and the Yamnaya were roughly from that area.
They were from Central Asia
@@AK.AK.12 They were from the Pontic steppe and caucuses.
Yamnaya came from the stepp in Ukraine, at one point in time was Russia. The same Russia that every native American ancestors came from. The Siberians are the first people who left Russia and went west to cross the land bridge in the Canada. The inuit people also came out from Russia into Asia who the went into Ukraine. I'll provide link.
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most white people are black, most americans are black, most hollywood actors nowadays are just random black female
as a Georgian, I've been in lots of fights because some americans couldn't just accept that the term caucasian ≠ European / North American
the term caucasian belongs to people from the caucasus mountains
Im a European. And Im with you on that! As seeing people in the West always misusing this term really infuriates me also! Keep educating them.
The reason why we call white people Caucasians is because we initially believed that whites descended from the Caucasian mountains, but anthropologists now know that it’s more like the Caspian steppe nowadays. Depending if you’re referring to the corded ware culture or the Yamaya.
To be honest those pectures are innacurate to show the appearance of the Caucasians,most of the people on those pictures don't even look Caucasians and some of them aren't even caucasians you mixed photos of turkish,iranians,Azerbaijanis with Caucasians.Тhe appearance of the northern Caucasians differs from the southern Caucasians,we don’t look like each other especially Armenians and Azerbaijanis they are very different from the rest of Caucasians...We Caucasians have different shades of skin from light to olive skin,from blue eyes to brown,from blond hair to dark like the inhabitants of europe or the middle east
This Video is obviously cherry picking. Not a single blonde pale Caucasian in here, even though there are plenty.
This video is almost exclusively focusing on the Southern Caucasus, which is the most densely populated region in the Caucasus
@@blistertooth talking about Caucasians and focusing only on the south isn't accurate as well
These people would fit right in in Spain, southern Italy, Southwestern France, Greece, Macidonia, Romania, North Africa etc. They look white to me. Not blonde but brunette.
Yeah they're white
Wait until they find out who the real Aryans are.
Indians and Iranians
@anaesthete5592 A few years ago, I went down a rabbit hole researching the alt right, which led to neo Nazis and original Nazis and fascist in general.
I could see far-right organizations were gaining ground in multiple countries, and I wanted to be educated.
When I the etymology of the word Aryan I had a true WTF moment. I know they lie and misrepresent everything, but to learn, they lie about the names they chose to call themselves, which proves they live in a house of cards.
atp i don't think 'aryan' should even be used at all 💀 it was changed to be extremely racist and antisemetic. it's the ideology that led to the holocaust
@@nic_777 maybe in the west, in India it's a popular name and a cultural, religious term in use since thousands of years before the Nazis
@anaesthete5592 i'm aware. i'm referring to the more common association of 'aryan' with racism, since the use of 'they' in OP's comment is referring to westerners. that is what my comment was built off of.
areas with a long history of using the word obviously aren't going to associate it with racism, but to westerners (who OP and I were talking abt), that is not the case. i didn't mean to say people with a different history of the word should stop using it, so that's my bad.
As a fellow circassian (one of Caucasus native nations), also need to be mentioned thats Caucasians are actually mostly white or mixed. We have our own group of sub races Balkan-Caucasian if im not mistaken. Depends on ethnicities, some of them turks, have asian background or more arabic and islamic influence and etc. Also Caucasus divided by the mountains in 2 parts - North and South Caucasus. North is (unfortunately) is a part of Russia. South consists of different Countries.
Please, people lets learn about the world more, educate ourselves and respect each other💚 Huge thanks for this video
Nothing unfortunate about being part of Russia and met Caucasians don't see anything wrong with it either.
Почему к" сожалению" север это часть России? Вам плохо в составе России живётся?
@@Pythoner Russians literally genocided Circassians to annex their land and Chechens in recent memory literally fought a war over being forced to be part of Russia.
@@genuscorvid All true, but with Circassia it's not like history stopped at that moment. They had good relations with the authorities after the Bolshevik revolution and got some of their territory back. Chechens yeah they fought a war, and then got hijacked by radical Islamists fighting their own battle against Russia; so they made a choice to side with the Russian authorities during the 2nd war and that arrangement has held up.
Girl, my entire life l’ve thought I wasn’t cauacsian and that it meant white, then the other day at the optometrist on their file it said I was caucasian. I was shocked.
A lot of Indians are Caucasians as well. White people are Caucasian, but not all Caucasians are White.
That’s “caucasoid”, not Caucasian which is just as outdated of a concept as “white/black/brown/yellow” are
Yep. North Indians, Iranians and Europeans all descend from the Pontic-Caspian steppe
North Indian Aryans yes, parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan too
White people are not Caucasian! White does not equal Caucasian! Thats what this whole video is about! Only those from Caucasus region are Caucasian. Irrespective of colour of their skin. If a white person is not from Caucasus, be they from Europe or anywhere else are not Caucasian! And can not be referred to as such!
White people as a group are NOT and do NOT equal Caucasian! It is a term reserved for people from Caucasus region only! Whether they are brown or white skin. If a person isnt not from Caucasus, be they from Europe or anywhere else, then they definitely are NOT Caucasus. And can not be referred to as such!
I'm an Indian from the Himalayas and we are proper Caucasians believe it or not
How are Himalayas related to Caucasus? They are two totally separate geographic areas. If you are not from Caucasus, you can not be Caucasian. Full stop.
@@Groza2222The Indo-Europeans/Aryans invaded north India from the Pontic-Caspian steppe in Ukraine during the Bronze Age via the Yamnaya
Caucasian also means Indo-European because one of the theories is that the Indo-European people originated in the Caucasus.
Indo Europeans originated from Central Asia
@@ChromeMan04 no
@@Wandkater yes
@@ChromeMan04 prove it
@@Wandkater kurgan hypothesis
THANK YOU.
I was literally shocked that in American English this term is being used as an equivalent of ‚white’
As an European it has always make me laugh when they’re using « Caucasians » as an insult lmao like no I take it as a compliment actually
Thank you for your content!! And wow, what beautiful clothing!
I’m American and Black. This is what I was taught and maybe another poster can check out the history behind these names…There are three main racial classifications, Caucasoid(White), Mongoloid(Asian), and Negroid(Black). Some people fit under more than one classification or one of the three mentioned here.
Race isn’t actually real, but there are some gene pools that clustered with similar features in certain regions… there should be way more classifications than those 3 if they want to get technically, but even then those would just be old gene pools that “originated” that way… over time when these pools intermingle we become like Mr potato heads.. skin color/eye color/hair color/hair type/eyes/skull shape and features can mix and match almost at random…. That guy who came up with those 3 was basing on primarily skull shape.
@@iLLEly0n Thank you. I was just trying to provide a possible answer for why Caucasian is a name given to White people.
@@iLLEly0nor we could all just be humans and stop division like this video
..... Uh no.. I'm saying this because of you break down by DNA and archaeology you go back to indo European, they come from the stepp went as far as north Africa and all in the west. Eurasian people who went into Asia and the Middle East, then sub Saharan Africa... Your true black people... The admixture of east, west and north Africa is of Middle Eastern aka indo European/Eurasian. These are the correct terms. Anything else is well for political, religious, or just plan racism one of the three. For as much as we all have been lied to I rather pass along the truth that I have done years worth or research from listening to different sources. And when I say I as a person who is white lives in America have done not only my DNA but also looked into hologroups of r1a r1b l1a j1a etc the trace for african alone starts in sub Sahara and ends in Africa while the j1a came from the middle east into Africa the others are in Europe going back to tte stepp... J1a also went west as well.
There is also the Australoid/veddoid people who are natives of Australia and Southern Asia
Bruh,the word caucasian refers to someone who descendeds from the Caucasus and the white indo-Europeans descend from the Caucasus,as for the current inhabitants of the Caucasus,Armenians(with some turkic dna though) are white,Georgians are white and even though Azeris call themselves turkic,there mixed so much with other white tribes that they only have a minority of turkic dna(llike the inhabitants of Turkey) and whites dont all have the same phenotypes there are whites with more ligher skin,lighter eyes,lighter hair color and some with darker skin,eyes,hair color.Also for the idiots in the comments saying the Caucasus is in Asia,it is accually in Europe,read a map and even if it was,there are many whites in Asia like the Iranians and the North Indians.
And there is nothing wrong with being white or called white
No one said there was.
There is something wrong with being white according to leftists lol they try to genocide us.
Your not white you are pink lol why lie cave?
It's a political identity not an ethnicity.
for some ppl they dont like being called white yk that right meaning some find calling you or someone white would be ofensi
I’m mostly Italian and Irish but learned I’m also middle eastern/ from the caucuses and honestly I got to learn even more about racism and different cultures I wouldn’t have thought to look into otherwise because I didn’t know certain things at all
That's great to hear that you're exploring and learning more about your heritage and different cultures! Discovering new aspects of your ancestry can be a rewarding journey that opens up new perspectives and opportunities for understanding and appreciating diversity.
Exploring different cultures and learning about the experiences, traditions, and histories of various communities can help foster empathy, compassion, and respect for others. It can also provide valuable insights into the complexities and interconnectedness of our world.
Racism and discrimination can unfortunately be prevalent in society, but education and awareness can help challenge stereotypes, dismantle prejudices, and promote inclusivity and understanding. By learning more about different cultures and sharing knowledge and experiences with others, we can contribute to building a more tolerant and interconnected global community.
Keep exploring, asking questions, and engaging with diverse cultures and perspectives. Your curiosity and openness can lead to greater awareness, empathy, and appreciation for the rich tapestry of human experiences in our world.
I actually have ancestry from that region. All European/Eurasian people's have their indigenous clothing and we all look more ethnic dressed in it. Modernity has just stripped us. Whites didn't arrive on spaceships the people you call white were indigenous to somewhere and just as tribal with extensive traditions and ornate and complicated dress. We get treated like we are indigenous to nowhere.
Huh, I actually never knew this. Thank you so much for the info. I’ll definitely share and make sure all my friends aren’t ignorant to this either. Its crazy that we’re so used to what we were taught especially here in America where the education system isn’t so great.
You shouldn't even spread knowledge taken from a guy in a random video, because he doesn't seem like a very studied person. Caucasian is almost synonymous with Indo-European, which represents a family of populations, of which both he and Western Europeans are part, together with: Indians, Iranians, Pakistanis, Slavs (Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians..)! You can find the origin by studying languages, etymologies, idioms, alphabets... having said this, ethnic groups are a biodiversity and I like to think of them as a world full of flowers of different colours. Imagine if there was only one flower and only one color
@@alal5581I beg to differ. Caucasian, as the video says, means from the Caucasus, as American means from America.
@@ABee-jb9vzI don't understand why people care.. it's just more division
I am proud to be European Scandinavian. Haters gonna hate
good job
I look very pale but my family isnt. We are Turkish and heavily mixed European. When I see these women, I see my family.
Ily so much for this. I am Chechen and it means I am Nakh, Indigenous Caucasian. I come from a small tribe myself. It's really silly to hear about my "whiteness" with such a background as a Caucasian.
Почему черкесы, чеченцы пишут на английском?
@@NoName-ku1ok Именно для тебя на русском написать?
@@NoName-ku1okпотому что они знают английский)
Those people aren't black or brown. They literally are all white people. They might not look Scandinavian but they are still white.
So so so true!!! This is why I got overly excited when I got asked to specify my ethnicity on a form. Most of the time I only get Caucasian or White, when I’m Dutch.
Im pretty sure you’re white
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Like yeah, European and Caucasian are not the same thing, we literally live in the different parts of the world (coming from a European). Let's respect each others heritages
Your heritage is Caucasian tho. 50% of your DNA comes from the Yamnaya who migrated into Europe from the Pontic-Caspian steppe
Yeah well Indo Europeans come from the Caucasus and the Eurasian steppes though. (Coming from a southern European)
Am Saudi 🇸🇦 but my origin is from Caucasus countries ❤❤
How that come,so your not arab your ancestors are from the Caucasus?
@ShikharDey-qz1msAnd North Africans.
@@sayonara5160 He is probably just a Circassian, there is a huge diaspora of them in the Middle East, especially Turkey but other former Ottoman provinces because they fled the Russian conquest in the 19th century.
They are beautiful 😭❤
Thank you for your content!!
We understand Northwestern European immigrants in America are not "Caucasian", but what the real Caucasians in Central and Eastern Europe don't always understand about the US Census and US immigration law is this: White is a legal racial classification and is an umbrella category for European people who who are neither black, Asian, Indigenous American or Pacific Islander. There is technically also another group that has been added for legal filings and demographic records, but is not used as often and it is Middle Eastern/North African (MENA). If you immigrate here but don't belong to those groups, and you are from anywhere in Europe, you are legally classified as "white" like all other Europeans. You may not descent from the British, Germans or any of the Saxons or Scandinavians, but even the real Caucasians are still "white" here in terms of US immigration law. Even the Kardashian are legally white under US law even though they are Armenian ethnically.
Yeah this thing about SWANA people being classified as white in the US (and im aware that some look white) has a particular history actually. Its because a lebanese immigrant in the early 1900s said that if he wasnt white, than neither Jesus was. Christian led conservative governments had to include SWANA folks as white because the possibility of admitting that their beloved Jesus was a person of color was too appalling
THANK YOU! I was hoping someone else was going to say this in detail!
Kardashians would not be considered as white in Russia (where their fathers family came from).
@@teoleno4019💯
In Caucasus Kardashians wouldn't be considered as white nor caucasians 😅
We Turks are Anatolians, this is how we identify ourself and this is best way to describe us 🌸
colonizer is also a good term since y’all came from Central Asia and aren’t from the Caucasus at all. Anatolia is literally a latinized version of a Greek word. Anatolia is Greek lmfao
The caucasians are PREDOMINANTLY white, not FULLY white. The caucasians are only partially white because caucasia COLLECTIVELY is europes gateway to the middle east. Thats why the Caucasus have unique genetic make up and very unique languages!
Arabs, Persians, and North Indians are also considered Caucasian. A more accurate term would be better, but currently, Caucasian means all those + Europeans
Caucasians are native ethnics of that region, like Chechens, Circassians, Ingush, Georgians and some of Dagestan ethnics))
I have never yet seen men or women in traditional clothes, who didn’t just radiate a different type of beauty! I am always stunned by the beauty of different cultural styles.
So glad you raise awareness of this ❤!
I'm Assyrian, Caucasian is white, theyre white people from a different region. Europeans are also white, from a different region than caucasians. The more you know...
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I had no idea that Caucasian didn’t mean white! Thank-you so much for this. I never used the word anyway as I thought it was racist but I’m completely wrong!
caucasian has multiple definitions:)
period! i’m half georgian and half of my family looks eastern white, typical pale with blue eyes and the other half very clearly have more distinct facial features wether it’s their nose or their eyes, shit i got some distant uncles that do the full blown grown out beard + head wrap
The images in this short are just so very striking - what a lovely tribute to the women of the Caucasus
Remember to always respect others
The way I checked off “Other” in HS when my SAT & ACT asked for my ethnicity bc I didn’t know what Caucasian meant. 💀 If you checked off other you had to fill in the blank. so I just wrote “White,” BECAUSE girl. I’m white. 🤣
On official forms and surveys, I always check "other" under ethnicity if white isn't an option since I learned this a while ago. So much deeply engrained misinformation floating around used on a regular basis.
I know your videos are about history and culture and raising awareness but you just look so good I think you really deserve a compliment! You are looking handsome, beautiful, and wonderful.
Every time I tell people my mom's family is Caucasian but not white I get some weird and crazy comments!
The caucasus region is europe's most ethnically diverse regions conisting over over 500 ethnicities, even more fascinating most of these ethnicities (circassians, chechens, georgians, avars etc) are some of the last living pre-indo european populations
I think you forgot armenians and chechnyans are just russian muslims
@@diana23456Chechens aren't ethnically Slavic, let alone Russian.
@@OakenTome most of them are a mix of Persian and Slavic soo!
@@OakenTome none of these people's are Slavic or Russian although I fail to see what your point is
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I didn’t know this! Thank you
In my Katt Williams voice : "From the mountains of Caucasus!"
I feel like this is an English thing to begin with. In my mother language Caucasian would definitely mean ppl from the Caucasus and nothing else. I came across this meaning while learning English.
I’m a polish person with blonde hair and blue eyes, and for most people I’d be considered simply Caucasian white, but within white nationalist movements, I’d be considered a subhuman Slav
Lol
As a race, you are white. Culture or religion is another thing.
@@mmgxo lol I don’t think one reconstruction is gonna prove anything
That's why the term "white" is extremely flawed. It varies from time and space, and is not consistent. Maybe people should abandon using the term "white" to describe themselves, and instead, use their ethnicity.
This is a strange misconception about what happened in the 30’s. Slavs were also national socialists, like the Ustace in Croatia. Also aligned with Germany was Bulgaria and Slovakia
THANK YOU I always try to explain it to everyone but people are just ignorant af
i love your videos. thankfully i haven't heard Caucasian being used as a synonym for white nearly as much in the past 5 or so years, but i definitely still hear it. so many people didn't want to use terms like "white" and "Black" so they'd use terms like "Caucasian" and "African American" when they weren't actually accurate in the context they were being used. not every Caucasian person is white and not every Black person in America is from Africa. it's good to know these things so I appreciate you spreading this knowledge with us
If only people had this same energy over the difference between gender and sex lmao
???
Make a video about it then if you’re all about that energy lol
No. We don't care about that. Don't need more division
Same thing with the nazi’s calling themselves the aryan race, when aryans were Indians!
In the 19th and 20th centuries the Indo-Europeans were called Aryans in Europe
aryans are iranians or northern indians lol, most indians are just dravidians
The Aryans came from Europe, they invaded India and Pakistan, destroying the Indus River civilization. This is why many in Pakistan and Northen India have light eyes and some times light hair.
@@rollinghippo2940 I don't what you mean by that, because dravidian is linguistic family and they are the second largest in India so clearly most Indians are not Dravidian
@@rpoutine3271 they came centuries after the collapse of indus valley cvilization from central Asia not Europe and the light hair and light eyes not always associated with "Aryans" because the most light eyed and light haired people are not the most steppe shifted people in the subcontinent it mostly the High BMAC ancestry, endogamy and $exu@! selection which leads to such traits in the Indian subcontinent
THANK YOU SO MUCH
How is it possible that so many people feel so entitled to tell everyone how to live but have zero geographical or cultural knowledge? It’s shocking!
Holy father bless our race and give us your wisdom.
As an Assyrian I feel seen😊 thank you❤❤ People don’t understand, Caucasian cultures are actually a thing……..
Assyrians are Caucasians?))
Assyrians aren't Caucasian, though???? Armenians, your closest relatives (genetically speaking) barely qualify as well. You are both Middle Eastern ethnic groups.
@@genuscorvid it was a question))
@@genuscorvid I know they both aren’t Caucasians
Correct. We are genetically most close to our cousins the Assyrian (proudly!) The confusion is likely the modern day country of Armenia which is all we have left of our homeland. This area is inclusive of part of the Southern Caucus region but does not represent the entire area of historic Armenia which was deeper within the middle east. We are both middle eastern ethnic groups. The Caucus mountains are also part of the middle east. The Caucus mountains are not just in Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. They are in Iran and Russia and Turkey. The greater Caucus mountains are in Russia region. The lesser are in the middle east area. I am glad you noticed this. Most people don't look past a glance at us.
Im learning a lot from your channel, thank you for uploading ❤
As a spanish caucus i dont bother telling people my ethnicty, they just say "no youre not" okay, sure know my bloodline better than me 💀✋🏻
I promise you no one is thinking about them
Song name?
no, the audio was referring to the white woman character Beatrix Kiddo, Uma Thurman, killing O-Ren, Lucy Lui, not those women.
Yes, the difference is the point.
@@GaySatanicClowns everyone making it abt race in the comments, i was just giving context to the audio bc people be dumb..
The point is Beatrix Kiddo/Uma Thurman is a European white woman, not a Caucasian woman.
Does anyone know where or why the miscommunication occurred
Besides the racial theories, it has something to do with where the proto-Indo-Europeans (i.e. the ancestors of modern European populations) formed, before migrating Westward into Europe (and other places). It was in the Caucasus and the area North of the Caucasus.
_"A recent analysis by [Prof. David W.] Anthony (2019) also suggests a genetic origin of proto-Indo-Europeans (of the Yamnaya culture) in the Eastern European steppe north of the Caucasus, deriving from a mixture of Eastern European Hunter-Gatherers (EHGs) and hunter-gatherers from the Caucasus (CHGs)."_
I'm so confused by the race thing cause I thought being white was a skin tone so fair skinned people are considered white which they would be?
My dad still says Gypsy and it breaks my heart to think that it’s simple to be plain racist without knowingg
Remind him that it's a slur every time.
Unless you'll cause more problems then it's worth, then don't, but reminders can be fun.