To: Cronos
Another definition of Caucasian is someone from the Caucasus region. On balance the evidence shows the earliest speakers of P-I-E were probably from the Caucasus.
The 19th century racial, i.e. skin color based, definition I agree should be scrapped. It makes much more sense to base a description of groups of human beings on language and common cultural and ethnic traits.
43 posted on
09/16/2004 6:27:28 PM PDT by
seowulf
To: seowulf
19th century racial, i.e. skin color based,
well actually it's a bit deeper than that -- it is based more on physiognomy, not on skin color -- or else Southern Italians would be considered a different race from Nordics
44 posted on
09/17/2004 12:33:23 AM PDT by
Cronos
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