[Disclaimer] - I am not an American and I consider myself atheist, I am Caucasian and born in a pre-dominantly Christian country.
Based on my limited knowledge of Christianity, it is all about social justice, compassion and peace.
And I was always wondering how come Republicans are perceiving themselves as devout Christians while the political party they support is openly opposing those virtues and if this doesn’t make them hypocrites?
For them the mortal enemy are the lefties who are all about social justice, helping the vulnerable and the not so fortunate and peace.
Christianity sounds to me a lot more like socialist utopia.
I am Caucasian
Are you actually from the Caucasus, like Georgia, Armenia, etc, or do you use the word to mean “European or descendent of Europeans”? Because the USA likes to use the word to mean European-like, which is incorrect, as the caucasus is a very specific region in the border of Europe and Asia.
You’re right about where the Caucasus is, but the generally accepted meaning - both in the US and Europe - is white European ancestry, not just those from the Caucasus.
I am from Europe, and fluent in several European languages. In all of those Caucasian means person from the Caucasus. The usage to mean European is exclusively an USA thing.
Thank you for your assumption that I am not, in fact, European.
However, given I’m from one of the few European countries that speak English as their primary language, I can categorically say you’re wrong.
It reads like op used the common American euphemism for ‘white’. Which is the correct usage as he’s addressing an American audience.
The usage of the word as it is common in the USA is incorrect. OP might not be aware of this, hence my comment.
Do you know why US-americans don’t use the appropriate word “European”? I’ve always wondered. They do say African, Asian, Latino, but not European, to describe ethnic origins.
The usage of the word as it is common in the USA is incorrect
Etymological prescriptivism is not really a tenable point in linguistics. You can argue that, for instance, in American English the Dutch word ‘rekening’ (bill) is abused as reckoning. And you can find literally thousands of examples like that.
I’m this case a non native speaker used the American English vernacular correctly. You argue that the word is used incorrectly in this vernacular, and it is very peculiar and steeped in the racial discourse of the country. However it’s usage was correct in this case.
