[Texas_Jarhead]

"The most troublesome thing is that CNN is not alone in its sympathy for Caucasian bandits..."

what is the inference here? what does 'Caucasuan' have to do with it? Is this an insinuation of race favoritism in the media? I don't get it.

[Tom Jefferson]

"what is the inference here? what does 'Caucasuan' have to do with it? Is this an insinuation of race favoritism in the media? I don't get it."

Chechnya is located in the Caucasus Mountains. People from that region are referred to as Caucasions, or Kafkazi in the native language.

[FairOpinion]

Texas_Jarhead: "The most troublesome thing is that CNN is not alone in its sympathy for Caucasian bandits..."

what is the inference here? what does 'Caucasuan' have to do with it? Is this an insinuation of race favoritism in the media? I don't get it. "

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Just a bit got lost in translation from Russian to English. They aren't referring to Caucasians, the way we use the word, to mean "white". They are referring to the geographic region of these terrorists, as "bandits from the Caucasus Mountain" region.
Map of Cechnya: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/commonwealth/chechnya_rel01.jpg

[Destro]

Caucasian as in people from the Caucuses mountains. The reason whites are called caucasians now is because in the 18th (I think) century science was so primitive that historians thought all white (i.e. Norhern Europeans/Aryans/Indo-Europeans) originated in the Caucuses mountains. They were very wrong (today it is thought of as Central Asia?).

Blacks, oddly were not called Africanoids from their land of origin but Negriods based on color (again because there was no understanding of true genetics/DNA) and Mongoloids becaue all Chinese looking people must have originated from the more primitive Mongols.

Grabage science all of it but the classifications stuck.

To say Caucasian is correct in terms of Georgians and Chechens and Armenians, etc.