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CaucasianIn physical anthropology, Caucasian is a purported race that includes most of the natives of Europe, West Asia, North Africa, and extending into the Indian subcontinent. This category was first proposed by the German scientist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach[?], who coined the term in his treatise "On the Natural Varieties of Mankind" in 1775. His studies based the classification of the Caucasian race primarily on skull features, which Blumenbach claimed were optimized by the inhabitants of Georgia in the Caucasus mountains.Later anthropologists such as Carleton Coon have further expanded upon the classification of the Caucasian race proposed by Blumenbach, and have subdivided the group into Nordic, Alpine, Mediterranean, and at times Dinaric and Baltic subdivisions. However, it is clearly observable that many people do not correspond easily to one such subracial type or another. There is currently extensive debate on the scientific validity of racial classifications, and many people now reject systems of racial classification as inherently arbitrary and subject to wide divergences in most populations. But Caucasian remains a common term in North America to describe whites of European descent. However Caucasian peoples of Asian, African, or at times Mediterranean origin are generally excluded from the popular definition of Caucasian. As a matter of fact, the term retains some accuracy only when applied to forensic anthropology[?] in North America. Its relevance is debatable as a physical anthropological[?], ethnic/cultural[?] or socio-political[?] concept. While the term Caucasian is still used for the lack of a better word in describing the peoples of western Eurasia, careful speakers generally limit the term to describe the inhabitants of the Caucasus region of Eastern Europe and Western Asia, especially when describing any specific ethnic or cultural traits. Popularly, the word "white" is used synonymously with "caucasian". Derogatory terms for this group include honky and cracker.
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again, and Gregory filled it to the brim.
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scorns me."
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talks to him as if to a master."
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no difference. I am respected for myself; they respect me because
then, that if my lord Ivan were tired of receiving orders, and gave
said 'perhaps.' Did you hear him?"
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"Well, send away these fellows, who are getting drunk like pigs, and
should give them drink for nothing?"
"Well, we shall see. How much would be their score, for your
obliged to shut up your tavern?"
"Not less than twenty roubles."
"Here are thirty; turn there out, and let us remain by ourselves."
"Friends," said Gregory, taking out his watch as if to look at the
you must go." The men, habituated like all Russians to passive
with Ivan and the two other slaves of the general.
"Well, here we are alone," said Gregory. "What do you mean to do?"
"Well, what would you say," replied Ivan, "if in spite of the late
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