“Caucasian” is a term used to describe people of the white (European) race. White ’race”[White race] The term was first introduced by the German anatomist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach in 1795. Blumenbach divided humanity into five varieties, or types: Caucasian, Mongolian, Ethiopian, American, and Malay. He gave the name “Caucasian” to the European type because he believed that the ancestors of the Europeans originated in the Caucasus Mountains of Georgia, near southwestern Russia.... więcej

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