not much is changing over here
I just wanted to share with my fellow Caucasians that when applying to colleges in the US, I gleefully checked the “Caucasian” box among the races on the common application form: My emotions upon seeing that word there fought with my logic telling me a tiny region no one gives a shit about would not be included with “all the major races” (it stopped short of arguing those from the region cannot make a race) and sadly, the former won that battle. Later I learned that apparently in the West, Caucasian means white. Nah, the ones I know and like are hairy folks with monobrows, quite the black hair and big dark eyes and prominent noses and they don’t age so well but they can do a mean Kafkaz dance at any age and give a great toast when the occasion arises, and they make sure the occasion does arise. How did that come to mean white people? And what was I supposed to check on that form?
change we can believe in
Strangely enough, this just came up in a new book the review of which I RT’d a few days ago: http://twitter.com/GoldenTent/statuses/11173490503
How did “Caucasian” come to mean “white people”? RT @nytimesbooks: The History of White People – By Nell Irvin Painter http://nyti.ms/aF0xjn