英语词汇caucasian的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Caucasian. When the German anthropologist Johann Blu- menbach divided mankind into the Caucasian, Mongolian, Ethiopian, American, and Malayan races in 1795, he chose a skull from the Caucasus, in what is now the Soviet Union, as the perfect type in his collection. He also claimed that the Cau- casus area was the home of the hypothetical race known as “Indo-Europeans,” to whom many languages can be traced. Blumenbach’s theories proved unscientific and tinged with rac- ism. In Webster’s New 20th Century Dictionary the word he coined is now given “in default of a better” and as “one of the main ethnic divisions of the human race: [including] the Medi- terranean, Alpine, and Nordic subdivisions, and is loosely called the white race.”

词汇	caucasian
词源	Caucasian. When the German anthropologist Johann Blu- menbach divided mankind into the Caucasian, Mongolian, Ethiopian, American, and Malayan races in 1795, he chose a skull from the Caucasus, in what is now the Soviet Union, as the perfect type in his collection. He also claimed that the Cau- casus area was the home of the hypothetical race known as “Indo-Europeans,” to whom many languages can be traced. Blumenbach’s theories proved unscientific and tinged with rac- ism. In Webster’s New 20th Century Dictionary the word he coined is now given “in default of a better” and as “one of the main ethnic divisions of the human race: [including] the Medi- terranean, Alpine, and Nordic subdivisions, and is loosely called the white race.”
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