The Blackness of the Epitome of Whiteness
The word Caucasian describes people who are......White. Usually fair skin and straight hair and from Europe or at least ancestry mostly connected to Europe. The epitome of Whiteness can sometimes be argued, especially in today's time, as blonde with blue eyes and fair skin and straight hair. The Taylor Swifts of the world. In the 18th century, anthropologists "discovered" (they love that word) an ethnic group called the Circassians. This ethnic group's features were fair skin with rosy cheeks, green eyes (some) and AFRO like hair texture. Yup. It was considered the most beautiful and pure form of Whiteness! The people were considered the purest of all the White people, the perfect White bread, and the top of the racial ladder! The ideal feminine beauty in the 18th century were the Circassian women, also later known as "moss hair girls". "Pure European features", was the description for these women. Seriously. Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, the founder or whatever of zoology and anthropology, created the term "caucasian race" after them. Something like that. He was mad crushin on the ladies. Blumenbach theorised that the Circassians were...stay with me...the closest to God's original model of humanity, and thus "the purest and most beautiful whites were the Circassians"! (!!!) I know right.
