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  2. Caucasian race - Wikipedia

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    The Caucasian race (also Caucasoid, [a] Europid, or Europoid) [2] is an obsolete racial classification of humans based on a now-disproven theory of biological race. [3] [4] [5] The Caucasian race was historically regarded as a biological taxon which, depending on which of the historical race classifications was being used, usually included ancient and modern populations from all or parts of ...

  3. Race and ethnicity in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The United States has a racially and ethnically diverse population. [1] At the federal level, race and ethnicity have been categorized separately. The most recent United States census recognized five racial categories (White, Black, Native American/Alaska Native, Asian, and Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander), as well as people who belong to two or more of the racial categories.

  4. Race and ethnicity in the United States census - Wikipedia

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    In 1997, the OMB issued a Federal Register notice regarding revisions to the standards for the classification of federal data on race and ethnicity. [8] The OMB developed race and ethnic standards in order to provide "consistent data on race and ethnicity throughout the federal government". The development of the data standards stem in large ...

  5. List of countries by ethnic groups - Wikipedia

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    While some countries make classifications based on broad ancestry groups or characteristics such as skin color (e.g., the white ethnic category in the United States and some other countries), other countries use various ethnic, cultural, linguistic, or religious factors for classification. Ethnic groups may be subdivided into subgroups, which ...

  6. Historical racial and ethnic demographics of the United States

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    Racial and ethnic demographics of the United States in percentage of the population. The United States census enumerated Whites and Blacks since 1790, Asians and Native Americans since 1860 (though all Native Americans in the U.S. were not enumerated until 1890), "some other race" since 1950, and "two or more races" since 2000. [2]

  7. Ethnic groups in the Caucasus - Wikipedia

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    Caucasian peoples: Georgians, Persians (in Azerbaijan), Circassians, Tatars, and Ingush The medieval Georgian village of Shatili Ethnic groups inhabiting the Caucasus region The village of Tindi, in Dagestan, in the late 1890s North Caucasian peoples (from left to right): Ossetians, Circassians, Kabardians, and a Chechen

  8. Definitions of whiteness in the United States - Wikipedia

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    It defines "white people" as "people having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa". [6] The Federal Bureau of Investigation uses the same definition. [7] The definition actually does vary and is also published as "a light skinned race", which avoids inclusion of any sort of nationality or ethnicity. [8]

  9. White people - Wikipedia

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    Specialists disputed whether this classification should be considered a White ethnicity or a race. [220] According to Frank Sweet, "various sources agree that, on average, people with 12 percent or less admixture appear White to the average American and those with up to 25 percent look ambiguous (with a Mediterranean skin tone)". [221]