On 22 Nov 2011 at 10:30, Kevin and Lynette wrote: > Recently settled by other countries by mainly Caucasian people.. The > Aboriginals have been living in Australia for tens of thousands of years and > the Africans in Africa since time in memorial. The American Indian also > native to North America. It is only since white invasion that these ancient > lands became 'new'!!!!!!!!!!!! A sensitive point to all ethnic groups who were > not even considered citizens of their own land in all the countries you > mention until reently. Lynette from OZ The "Caucasian people" seems to be an odd kind of myth that has spead around, apparently from some French traveller in the 18th or 19th century who claimed that Caucasian people were the most beautiful that he had encountered in his travels, and since then nearly everyone in Europe (and their offshoots in places like the USA) has been trying to claim Caucasian ancestry. Joe Stalin was a Caucasian, so I suppose if you consider him beautiful, you could claim Caucasian ancestry. But I believe that there are more than 40 different languages in Caucasia, most of them mutually unintelligible, and some of them belonging to completely different language families, so ethnically the Caucasians are themselves a pretty mixed bunch. And since Caucasia straddles the boundary between Europe and Asia, some of them are Asian and some European. It really does seem an odd designation to claim. In my researches all my ancestors have been from the UK, back (in some branches) to the 16th century, and not a single Caucasian among them. Perhaps DNA tests might reveal Caucasian ancestry. -- Steve Hayes E-mail: shayes@dunelm.org.uk Web: http://hayesstw.tumblr.com/ (follow me on Tumblr) Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com Phone: 083-342-3563 or 012-333-6727 Fax: 086-548-2525