21st March 2006, 6:24 PM
(This post was last modified: 21st March 2006, 6:43 PM by A Black Falcon.)
Quote:In other news, the greeks and therfore the persians are from a slight variant of the middle eastern nomad, slightly lighter and less heavy features in the face. probably caused by a shit ton of inbreeding but asian influence is working theory but it doesnt explain the problems with the interbred features, in that came the blue eyes and blond hair or very light brown/red hair, before that it has not been recorded anywhere on earth. Everyone was dark, everyone had black unmangible hair, and everything pretty much sucked because if you were lucky you lived until you were 5 years old, before being eaten by dragons. all eye colors, skin colors, hair colors, etc that are not dark are either mutations or neccesary alterations in surface genomes to increase survivability in ice age conditions (white skin, more actual fat cells than per norm) and all that fun stuff.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasian_race
Interesting, I didn't realize that there was that much contraversy over the term 'Caucasian'... I'd have said "people from Europe or the Meditteranean region", and included Middle Easterners in the category, but I hadn't thought of Indians too as Caucasian, though in the broadest definition they are... the most interesting part, though, is how in Europe the term isn't used and instead they use 'White European' instead... and Caucasian for people from the Caucasus...
Anyway, the people of the Middle East are certainly within the broad "Caucasian" group... though of course then you get into the whole debate about what human "races" are anyway and if they really exist, which just confuses everything again.
Anyway, Jesus would have been Middle Eastern/Meditteranean, and not 'white European' as he is usually depicted as. That still makes him Caucasian under some definitions of the term, however, if sometimes not the most commonly used one... but the whole issue of "races" is a pretty contraversial one.