SV: Caucasian genes in Dravidian wombs

Vanbakkam Vijayaraghavan vijay at VOSSNET.CO.UK
Thu Nov 30 11:51:54 UTC 2000


On Thu, 30 Nov 2000 10:25:26 +0100, Lars Martin Fosse <lmfosse at ELENDER.HU>
wrote:

>Subrahmanya S. [SMTP:subrahmanyas at HOTMAIL.COM] skrev 30. november 2000
>04:07:
>> The word Caucasian is merely a PC substitute for Aryan.
>> It seems to have been coined at a time of growing nationalistic
>> fervor in Europe.
>
>This is contradicted by your own quotation. Caucasian is not a PC for
>Aryan. It is an old-fashioned term for "white", coined about two-hundred
>years ago. It would also include typical non-Aryans like Finns and Basques.

Would you also include as "typical aryans" the black, mulatto and latino
populations of the Americas since English/Spanish/French/Portugese is their
mother tongue?





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