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by graemep 19 days ago
They certainly look white to me.

Are Spanish people white or Hispanic according to those definitions?

'Original peoples' is an interesting phrase. Neanderthals? Beaker people?

A single category for everyone from Pakistanis to Japanese is weird.

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> Introduced in the 1780s by members of the Göttingen school of history, the term denoted one of three purported major races of humans: Caucasoid, Mongoloid, and Negroid

Sounds totally legit.

Caucasian includes South Asians and some East Africans according to that definition.