kerble wrote:Gramsci wrote:kerble wrote:haha. I can't tell you white people apart, either!
Umm, people from the Sub-Continent are not "Asian"
haha. yes they are.
You can label people by their skin colour if you like - I try not to - , but you should at least do it with some degree of intelligence.
If you don't think that what is traditionally regarded as Indian people - i.e. humans who's most recent evolutionary external traits such as skin colour, facial features etc. who are from the geographical region we call the Indian Sub-Continent - aren't classified as Caucasoid, well... good for you, it doesn't make it right.
Caucasian |kôˈkā zh ən|
adjective
1 often offensive of or relating to one of the traditional divisions of humankind, covering a broad group of peoples from Europe, western Asia, India and North Africa. [ORIGIN: so named because the German physiologist Blumenbach believed that it originated in the Caucasus region of southeastern Europe.]
2 of or relating to the Caucasus.
3 of or relating to a group of languages spoken in the region of the Caucasus, of which thirty-eight are known, many not committed to writing. The most widely spoken is Georgian, of the small South Caucasian family, not related to the three North Caucasian families.