>>Where do you think "white" as
>>an identifier was established. You
>>speak on being scientific. What
>>is your source for the
>>origin of the word "white"
>>as an identifier?
>
>Charles Darwins' "The Origin of Species
>: By Means of Natural
>Selection or the Preservation ofFavored
>Races in the Struggle for
>Life you can find it
>here

So, you actually think Charles Darwin came up with the idea that Europeans are part of a racial group? I have no idea how you could substantiate that. In fact, I don't think you can. European interaction with Native Americans and Africans throughout the colonial period is filled with writings which indicate that Europeans considered themselves superior to both, much of those writings pre-dating Darwin. The world's problems with race precede Darwin, I'm afraid.

>
>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679600701/qid%3D957368729/sr%3D1-20/104-5523944-2795968
>
>as well as the subsequent writing
>of charles lyle. These books
>provided that race had its
>"scientific" basis in the systems
>of evolution by which professing
>that "white" or "caucasians" were
>more evolved as their features
>were less "simian"

racial division predates any of this.

>>>That presumes that all racial categories
>>>come from the same place
>>>and thats just not true.
>>
>>Where did each racial term originate?
>
>you'll have to signify what you
>mean by "each" Ive already
>told you where "white" racial
>classifications came from; black ideology
>came from the Black power
>movement and pan african movements
>of the 50's and 60's

I don't have to signify anything. Anyone in America knows the general racial classifications: black, white, Asian, Hispanic.

>
>>Why aren;t Russians (from the
>>eastern portion of the old
>>USSR )and Isrealis considered "Asians"?
>
>I dont know- whats your point?

My point is, all racial classifications are arbitrary, not just the "white" racial classicification. Someone somewhere decided that "Asian" as a racial group did not encompass every human being who lived on the Asian continent.

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