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Originally Posted by OnyxBat
I know but people just found it as a good lable for white folks, if you fill out and application it will ask white/Caucasian.
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Amazingly, this is a good point.
Ophie, I will concede that I didn't know the technical definition of "caucasian". But, much like Onyx [and since I rarely think about the word beyond filling out applications], I would have to say that in the minds of 99.9% of Americans, the word is synonymous with "white person".
I don't know how it came to mean that either, but ask anyone on the street, and I'm pretty sure they'll tell you it means "white person".
I could, of course, be wrong.
