Ethnic Group Quotes
“Caucasian” was originally a geographical term that had nothing to do with race. No one knows exactly how it came to be accepted as a racial term or as a color no one knows. Today of course we know that race has no scientific meaning, and that all humans are descended from the same ancestors in Africa. Note that the original “Caucasians” included people of many skin colors and features—from Russians and people from the Baltic to North Africans and the many skin shades of India.
“Kaffers” were the Blacks that Migrated to South Africa from the north.
Many of the Kurdish people want an independent state—Kurdistan—of their own. There are large concentrations of Kurds in Turkey, Iraq, and Iran. The Arabs who have a number of independent states in the Middle East came to the area well after the Kurds, but in the vicissitudes of history, the Kurds have not ended up with a country of their own.
