Kim K to TMZ: Kiss My Big Fat Ass!

91. Bob, never disrespected any person, and further never talked down on them...Sound(s) like Mom has dropped the ball. I worked on a number of cases and matters for your father Robert Kardashian, My daughter was born in August and you in October I remember very well. Please practice your character and lear to be respectable. Nick De Luca Ret. Lt. LAPD

Posted at 7:18PM on Apr 15th 2008 by Nicholas R. De Luca

92. That is how the scientists and anthropologists label them. Oh well..Next we will here that people from Spain and Italy aren't White either.

Posted at 7:21PM on Apr 15th 2008 by Jessica

93. Many Spaniards are blonde and blue eyed, because they are European and white. They don't consider themselves Hispanic which is a culture and not a race.

Posted at 7:23PM on Apr 15th 2008 by Debra

94. This is so stupid. Just because someone has an olive complexion and dark hair they aren't considered White??? Please. It is the facial features nimrods.

Posted at 7:27PM on Apr 15th 2008 by Kay

95. Michael Jackson is white.

Posted at 7:30PM on Apr 15th 2008 by Obama's mama

96. From Wikipedia:

"Populations included

Among the main racial group of Caucasians there are three subgroups; Nordic, Alpine, and Mediterranean.
Huxley's map of racial categories from On the Geographical Distribution of the Chief Modifications of Mankind (1870). Caucasians, marked in red, are identified as occupants of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, through to Northern India.
Huxley's map of racial categories from On the Geographical Distribution of the Chief Modifications of Mankind (1870). Caucasians, marked in red, are identified as occupants of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, through to Northern India.

18th century anthropologist Christoph Meiners, who first defined the Caucasian race, posited a "binary racial scheme" of two races with the Caucasian whose racial purity was exemplified by the "venerated... ancient Germans", although he considered some Europeans as impure "dirty whites"; and "Mongolians", who consisted of everyone else.[7] Meiners did not include the Jews as Caucasians and ascribed them a "permanently degenerate nature".[15] Anthropologist Johann Blumenbach, Meiners' contemporary, stated, "to this first variety [Caucasians] belong the inhabitants of Europe (except the Lapps and the remaining descendents of the Finns) and those of Eastern Asia, as far as the river Obi, the Caspian Sea, the Ganges and the Basque Country; and lastly, those of North Africa" [7]. French doctor and pharmacist Jean Joseph-Virey[16] also known as "Julien-Joseph Virey"[17] or "Jean-Julien Virey"[18] followed Meiners' racial system. Hannah Franzieka identified 19th c. writers who believed in the "Caucasian hypothesis" and noted that "Jean-Julien Virey and Louis Antoine Desmoulines were well-known supports of the idea that Europeans came from Mount Caucasus."[18] In his political history of racial identity, Bruce Baum wrote,"Jean-Joseph Virey (1774-1847), a follower of Chistoph Meiners, claimed that "the human races... may divided... into those who are fair and white and those who are dark or black."[19]

[edit] People of South Asia

Early 20th century anthropologist Carleton Coon wrote in the 1930s that within the Caucasoid race there is a "third division [Mediterraneans which]... included... southern India" but remarked this group had "facial features of a Veddoid character which in some instances suggest Australoid affinities."[20] He further elaborated that in India there are "Veddoids... individuals who are to all extents and purposes Australoid." Regarding the exact racial composition of India, Coon admitted, "[T]he racial history of southern Asia has not yet been thoroughly worked out, and it is too early to postulate what these relationships may be...[I] shall leave the problems of Indian physical anthropology in the competent hands of Guha and of Bowles."[20]

In 1995, geneticist Cavalli-Sforza wrote, "[T]he Caucasoids are mainly fair-skinned peoples, but this group also includes the southern Indians, who live in tropical areas and show signs of a marked darkening in skin pigmentation, although their facial and body traits are Caucasoid rather than African or Australian."[21]

[edit] Physical characteristics
Meyers Blitz-Lexikon (Leipzig, 1932) divides "Caucasiod types" into: Nordic, Dinaric, Mediterranean, Alpine, East Baltic, Turks, Bedouins, Iranians.
Meyers Blitz-Lexikon (Leipzig, 1932) divides "Caucasiod types" into: Nordic, Dinaric, Mediterranean, Alpine, East Baltic, Turks, Bedouins, Iranians.

18th century anthropologist Christoph Meiners, who first defined the term, characterized the "Caucasian" as having the characteristics of "lightness", "beauty" and being "handsome" with the "ancient Germans" having the "whitest, most blooming and most delicate skin" because they were the most racially pure Caucasians.[7] 18th century anthropologist Johann Blumenbach, the second person to define the term, considered Caucasians to be the top of "racial hierarchy" he organized where, "the white color holds the first place, such as it is that most Europeans. The redness of cheeks in this variety is almost peculiar to it: at all events it is but seldom seen in the rest." and described Caucasians as, "Color white, Cheeks rosy; hair brown or chestnut-colored; head subglobular; face oval, straight, its parts moderately defined, forehead smooth, nose narrow, slightly hooked, mouth small. The primary teeth placed perpendicularly to each jaw: the lips (especially the lower one) moderately open, the chin full and rounded."[7]

In 2003, the term "Caucasoid race" is a term used in physical anthropology to refer to people of a certain range of anthropometric measurements [22].

However, some anthropologists point to Ethiopians, Eritreans, Somalis and Nubians who exhibit phenotypical traits such as orthognathism, keen facial features and non-kinky hair texture usually exclusive to Caucasoid peoples. They contend such variations are indigenous to these groups and cannot be attributed to invasions from outside Caucasoid peoples as suggested under the Dynastic Race Theory and in more recent biological studies.[23] Such phenotypical variations, they argue, often occur within nuclear family groups and are inherent to what they term "Africoid" peoples, much as there are broad variations in physical stature and body proportions between the Pygmies of the Congo, who generally reach a height of 4.5 feet, and of the Dinka or Tutsi of Rwanda, whose average height is 6.5 feet and who are described as "gracile", or gracefully slender.[24] Similarly, they continue, African peoples commonly considered "Negroid" such as the Senegalese also sometimes lack prognathism.[25].

This view, however, has no shortage of critics whom argue that the Wolof people of Senegal possess considerable Caucasoid maternal admixture which could very well explain their relatively attenuated prognathism. Critics also point out that the so-called "elongated" physique common to many Ethiopians, Eritreans and Somalis is strictly an adaptive response to living in a tropical environment and not a sign of shared racial ancestry with neighboring black groups as has been proposed:

The elongation of the distal segments of the limbs is also clearly related to the dissipation of metabolically generated heat. Because heat stress and latitude are clearly related, one would expect to find a correlation between the two sets of traits that are associated with adaptation to survival in areas of great ambient temperature, namely, skin color and limb proportions. This is clearly the case in such areas as Equatorial Africa, the tropical portions of South Asia, and northern Australia, although there is little covariation with other sets of inherited traits. In this regard it is interesting to note that the limb proportions of the Predynastic Naqada in Upper Egypt are reported to be "super-Negroid", meaning that the distal segments are elongated in the fashion of tropical Africans. It would be just as accurate to call them "super-Veddoid" or "super-Carpentarian" because skin color intensification and distal limb elongation are apparent wherever people have been long-term residents of the tropics. The term "super-tropical" would be better, as it implies the results of selection associated with a given latitude rather than the more "racially loaded" term "Negroid.[26]"

[edit] Usage

Posted at 7:32PM on Apr 15th 2008 by Cadillac Man

97. Indians (India), Middle East, and Asians are considered Caucasian. Take an anthropology class.

Posted at 8:48PM on Apr 15th 2008 by Dara

98. The media takes over 80% of the things people do or say out of context, and then they sell tidbits to the magazines...

Posted at 10:53PM on Apr 15th 2008 by Jersey Santiago

99. Oh yay, everyone loves long-ass wikipedia posts...

Posted at 7:42PM on Apr 15th 2008 by Anti-Society

100. Well one thing about it .......there's plenty there to kiss. I guess all that pounding from those black dudes from the rear have surely spread that thing out.

Posted at 7:54PM on Apr 15th 2008 by dharma

101. Kim is Too Hotttt for her own good! All the Haters are just makin her more famous! You go Kim!!! Laugh all the way to the bank!!!

Posted at 8:00PM on Apr 15th 2008 by T.S.

102. Such a skank! What is happening that we can't show truly talented people instead of these whores who are no talents, who have not one true body part on them! People wonder why America is not "America the Great" anymore. Look what people want to watch on tv.

Posted at 8:05PM on Apr 15th 2008 by imjustsaying

103. Me loves Wikipedia! Yay!

Posted at 8:49PM on Apr 15th 2008 by Shelley

104. Curse of the OJ "dream team" of lawyers, who helped him get away with double murder? Kardashian dies of cancer, Robert Shapiro's son OD's, F. Lee Bailey was disbarred, Johnny Cochran died of a brain tumor...

Posted at 9:25PM on Apr 15th 2008 by opi

105. I'm on the other side of the continent but me smells the rancid of skank.

Posted at 11:41AM on Apr 16th 2008 by The-Rex