Why calling a white person a Caucasian is inherently racist, as well as terms like African-American.

Though absurdly common place, calling a person 'white' or a person 'Caucasian', picking a color to describe a person that could be from nearly any variation in the world is racist. Let's take a look at the common formal way of calling someone 'white': Caucasian. The term originates from the Caucuses, a region of Russian territory between the Caspian and Black Seas.
Oh look, my homeland!!

This is an area of the world that most people couldn't find on a map, and even fewer are actually from in any hereditary form, but none the less....CAUCASIAN (thanks to German Johann Blumenbach)!

Thanks a lot Johann!
What is funny is that calling people Caucasian is widely accepted though unbelievably inaccurate. Not unlike the use of the word 'African-American' to describe someone of dark skin. Very few people living in America are African-Americans, unless you somehow have a DNA rollback and find out they came from a portion of Africa; in most cases this is simply overlooked and assumed.

But none the less we seem completely comfortable with racist, bigot like labels, being applied at nausea to damn near everyone we see immediately and without regard of fact. This need to bin by color is something that is probably just ingrained in human DNA, a way of isolating something or highlighting one over another for descriptive purposes - of course human history bastardized that one. Something that ends up highlighting the hilariousness of trying to link color to place is readily found in America.
an actual AFRICAN-AMERICAN

We love to label, especially when it can get us free perks. We aren't concerned with facts, cause those just muddle our emotional thinking, so better to just label the crap out of all the things with complete disregard of origin. We append titles and categories without consideration, and we actually are upset if you highlight disparity.

If America ever wishes to actually get past history, it will need to start looking at what the currently acceptable labels look like, and how truly off they are. For instance, we don't have Caucasians in most of America, we may have 'white' people, but very few come from Russian decent. Probably better off calling them 'European', but even then some with Norther decent will probably be pissed, considering their ancestors made it a daily habit to try to kill Europeans. You can call people black, but then you get into the whole is it milk or dark chocolate thing, better to stay away from that as Blacks in Europe generally don't think to highly of Blacks from America.  So all this garbage, what do we have?
Plain Old American American.
A piss-poor way of labeling humans in a society that claims freedom. Interesting. How about we just start calling Americans "Americans", without a hyphen, and people, people. Sure you can use color to pick a favorite in a boxing match "I'm rooting for the black guy!" but do you really want to have to say "I'm rooting for the guy with the lighter dark skin of what seems to be Nigerian decent!" - doesn't have the same impact.


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