Caucasian race

Map of human races (Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 1885–1890)

Caucasoid:   Aryans   Semitic   Hamitic Negroid:   African Negro   Khoikhoi   Melanesian   Negrito   Australoid Uncertain:   Dravida & Sinhalese

Mongoloid:   North Mongol   Chinese & Indochinese   Korean & Japanese   Tibetan & Burmese   Malay   Polynesian   Maori   Micronesian   Eskimo & Inuit   American

Caucasoid was a word for a person from Europe, West Asia, South Asia, Central Asia, North Africa, or the Horn of Africa. The group of these persons was called "Caucasoid race" or Caucasian race. In former times, many people divided human beings into three races. These races were called Caucasoid, Mongoloid, and Negroid. Today, scientists agree that there is only one human race. Modern genetic research has shown that the idea of three races was wrong.

German anthropologist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752 – 1840) invented the name Caucasian race because he saw a connection to the Caucasus Mountains.

In the United States, white people are often called "Caucasian". But the actual "Caucasian race" included people with a skin from white to brown.

Pictures

Some persons in the pictures have white skin, others have brown skin. All persons in the pictures are members of the "Caucasian race".

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  Children from Georgia in the Caucasus region
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  Children from Somalia
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  Officials from Minneapolis and the Somalian town of Bosaso