The confusion is equating Caucasian with White. Skin color has little to do with race.
If the skeletons of Khadafi, Ayatollah Khomenei and Saddam Hussein were found in a park somewhere, the coroner would report that the skeletons of three white men were found.
All Europeans, Arabs, Iranians, Indians, etc. are basically Caucasians.
There really are only either four or five races; Caucasian, Sub-Saharan African, Australian/Papuan (Aborigines, etc.), Asian, and then some class American Indians separately, others include them as a subgroup of Asians.
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This is why I am so gosh darned tired of hearing about these “brown” people.
MOST OF THEM ARE WHITE.
And many “Asians” are now seen as “victims” while other “Asians” are seen as another privileged class like whites who must be willing to give way so some “brown” person can move ahead.
And those could be the exact same Asian individuals depending on a crap shoot of the dice.
You’d think in this day of “CSI” and “Bones” people would be getting the clue that our racial classification (if needed) has little to do with our skin color.
I do love those funky white people, like the Azerbaijanis. so Muslim, so white, so obscure.
It is actually interesting to look at the globe and see “race” melding into “race”, but no matter how interesting it is from a scientific view it says nothing about any individual person.
Which is the point that matters.
From my viewpoint, there are really only two races: (1) the people who are productive workers, and raise their kids to be likewise, and (2) those who want to loot the stuff of those in category 1, and raise their kids likewise.
From my viewpoint, Thomas Sowell and the 100 thugs from the article have nothing in common except their melanin levels.
Asians are a diverse lot -- Mongoloids, Australoids, Indo-Europeans, Semites.