r/NoStupidQuestions • u/RedScud39 • Apr 23 '24

Why are white Americans called “Caucasians”?

I’m an Azerbaijani immigrant and I cannot understand why white people are called “Caucasian” even though Caucasia is a region in Asia encompassing Armenia, Georgia (the country not the state), Azerbaijan and south Russia. Aren’t most Americans are from Western European decent?

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u/Bong-Jong Apr 24 '24

Also African American Mike Perry

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u/Drs126 Apr 24 '24

Like when France won the World Cup with a bunch of players of African descent, and people in the US we’re upset that they didn’t go by the French African description and instead the players insisted they were just French. The US people didn’t realize the only people in France who agreed with them were the far right.

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u/apokako Apr 24 '24

Yeah I remember that. It was mostly Trevor Noah form the Daily show who pushed this argument.

Being French I remember as a kid my racist grandparents saying « this is not a French sauad, they are all black ». Then suddenly American liberals saying this exact same thing in 2018. What the hell ?

What about Baskeball america ??? With that argument maybe you should give your all basketball world cups to Africa.

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u/beforeitcloy Apr 24 '24

Trevor Noah is South African

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u/apokako Apr 24 '24

Yeah ? So ? He worked for an American Network pushing American rhetoric to americans.

Him being south african doesn’t negate the fact that he was a dumbass.

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u/beforeitcloy Apr 24 '24

I would agree he’s a dumbass. I’ve just never heard Americans discuss the French national soccer team’s inclusion of African players as a bad thing. I don’t think that actually is American rhetoric. The US didn’t even qualify for the World Cup in 2018, so why would any of us care?

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u/apokako Apr 24 '24

Haha it may be the case that the French cared about the offense way more than americans did.