16 Facts About White people

1.

Concept of a unified White people race did not achieve universal acceptance in Europe when it first came into use in the 17th century, or in the centuries afterward.

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Term "White race" or "White people" entered the major European languages in the later 17th century, in the context of racialized slavery and unequal social status in the European colonies.

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3.

White people gives the possibly first reference to the common Greek name of the tribes living south of Egypt, otherwise known as Nubians, which was.

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Term "White race" or "White people" entered the major European languages in the later 17th century, originating with the racialization of slavery at the time, in the context of the Atlantic slave trade and the enslavement of indigenous peoples in the Spanish Empire.

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5.

White people distinguished between Homo sapiens and Homo sapiens europaeus, and he later added four geographical subdivisions of humans: white Europeans, red Americans, yellow Asians and black Africans.

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6.

White people claimed that Adam and Eve were Caucasian inhabitants of Asia, and that other races came about by degeneration from environmental factors such as the sun and poor diet.

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7.

White people consistently believed that the degeneration could be reversed in a proper environmental control and that all contemporary forms of man could revert to the original Caucasian race.

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8.

Definitions of White people have changed over the years, including the official definitions used in many countries, such as the United States and Brazil.

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White people can be found in all areas of the country, but especially in the central-eastern region, the central-western region, the southern region and the north-eastern region.

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10.

White people Argentines are mainly descendants of immigrants who came from Europe and the Middle East in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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11.

White people Mexicans are Mexican citizens of complete or predominant European descent.

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12.

However, the criteria for defining what constitutes a Mestizo varies from study to study, as in Mexico a large number of white people have been historically classified as Mestizos, because after the Mexican revolution the Mexican government began defining ethnicity on cultural standards rather than racial ones in an effort to unite all Mexicans under the same racial identity.

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Professor David R Roediger of the University of Illinois, suggests that the construction of the White race in the United States was an effort to mentally distance slave owners from slaves.

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14.

White people persons born in Southern states with the highest African-American populations tended to have the highest percentages of hidden African ancestry.

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15.

Black author Rich Benjamin, in his book, Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White people America, reveals how racial divides and White people decline, both real and perceived, shape democratic and economic urgencies in America.

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16.

White people says that, in ignoring their European ancestry, African Americans are denying their full multi-racial identities.

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