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[–] planish@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As a science term for "white", see "Too Many Scientists Still Say Caucasian" in Scientific American, also "Abandoning the word Caucasian" in the Journal of Genetic Counciling and "The Ongoing Incorrect Use of Caucasian in Medical Research" in the journal Health Equity. There are a bunch of scientists who think this.

I think if you are actually describing something or someone from the actual Caucasus mountain region, it would be correct, but people might thing you meant "white" so even then you might be better off with "from the Caucasus Mountains".

[–] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Thank you for this.

My understanding was “caucasian” applied to all groups that migrated through the caucuses and that’s why Persians and other non-European nations were included. To be clear Im in my 50s so the above could just be the result of institutionalized racism that never got addressed due to not having much in an education in sociology/ anthropology