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CAUCASIAN [4 records]

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Record 1 2022-08-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Sociology
DEF

A person belonging to one of the population groups of especially European ancestry that are often considered as having light pigmentation of skin.

OBS

Caucasian: Although the noun "Caucasian" is sometimes used in North America to refer to a white person, this term refers to an obsolete and scientifically unfounded human classification system dating from the 18th century. The noun "Caucasian" used to mean "white person" should therefore be avoided.

OBS

white: The noun "white" referring to a person is usually used in the plural form and typically in the context of population groups.

OBS

white person: The plural forms are "white persons" and "white people."

Key term(s)
  • whites
  • white persons
  • white people

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sciences humaines
  • Sociologie
DEF

Personne qui appartient à l'un des groupes de population, notamment d'ascendance européenne, auxquels on associe souvent une peau peu pigmentée.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Ciencias humanas
  • Sociología
DEF

Persona o raza de piel clara o rosada.

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Record 2 2009-07-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology of Human Relations
  • Demography
DEF

Of or relating to the white or light-skinned race of human beings originally inhabiting Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie des relations humaines
  • Démographie
OBS

Au Canada, le terme [caucasien] est utilisé par opposition avec d'autres termes qui décrivent des groupes raciaux, tels «minorités visibles», «groupes raciaux», «minorités racialisées».

OBS

caucasien et caucasique : termes critiqués parce que rarement employés dans ce sens.

Spanish

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Record 3 2008-05-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Anthropology
CONT

Alexeev used to single out only three Great Races: Europoid or in the more obsolete terminology "white", Mongloid or "yellow" (in fact ranging from very white in the northern Siberian Evens to dark brown in some Indonesian populations) and Equatorial where he would lump Black Africans, Negritos of Andamans and other Southeast Asian islands i.e. Papuans, Australians etc.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Anthropologie
DEF

Type qui présente les caractères de la race blanche.

Spanish

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Record 4 1993-07-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psycho-, Socio- and Ethnolinguistics
DEF

Languages indigenous to the Caucasus region that have not been affiliated with larger language families such as Indo-European, Altaic or Hamito-Semitic

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psycho-, socio- et ethnolinguistique
DEF

Il s'agit de langues autochtones de la région du Caucase telles que les langues indo-européennes, les langues turques, une langue mongole et une langue sémitique.

Spanish

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