Ethnicity Quotes
“Caucasian” was originally a geographical term that had nothing to do with race. No one knows exactly how it came to be accepted as a racial term or as a color no one knows. Today of course we know that race has no scientific meaning, and that all humans are descended from the same ancestors in Africa. Note that the original “Caucasians” included people of many skin colors and features—from Russians and people from the Baltic to North Africans and the many skin shades of India.
Andrew Macdonald
What he meant by “crosses” was cross breeding or what we would call inter-racial breeding. He was under the scientifically false assumption held by many racists that interracial breeding deteriorates the progeny. Actually, without diversity, species are subject to genetic problems which is why we have prohibitions on marrying siblings and other close relatives. He was also historically inaccurate in the Arabs and the other Semitic people of the Middle East were inbred with less intermarriage than most European whites.
This was quite shocking to most Italians where Jews had been very assimilated for years and anti-Semitism was not as embedded in society as in Germany.
Tibet and some other ethnic enclaves of China have been almost impervious to the general improvement in the standard of living that China accomplished at the end of the 20th century and beginning of the 21st. China is not the only nation to have this difficulty. Some would argue that America still has it with some of its Native American nations. The great challenge is trying to develop and modernize a culture that does not want to be modernized at the moment but still wants many of the benefits of modernization.
