Word: caucasian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...offers what he clearly intends to be an astounding fact-that the majority of the world's 14 million Jews are not Semites. Most European and American Jews, he advises, should not trace their origins to the tents of Jacob but rather to the yurts of 7th century Caucasian nomads known as Khazars. With their fair skin, reddish hair and blue eyes, the Khazars were not what is usually regarded as Semites. They spoke a kind of old Turkish, but their origins remain hidden...
...than Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa together, more Italians than Palermo, more Irish than Cork, along with Germans, Arabs, Chinese, Eastern Europeans and others. From spring to fall, New York resounds with different ethnic parades. Emigre Tibetans maintain an Office of Tibet on Second Avenue. Then there are the Caucasian-Sircoisian Cultural Center, the Grupo Folklorico Paraguayo, the Korean Community Foundation, the Serbian Folklore Group, the Casa Galicia...
Purportedly an anthropological exhibit, this is really a zoo. The assorted and rather unsorted tribesmen parade impressively among the objects of their daily life; strange, colorful, and unexplained. An exhibit likely to leave the average Caucasian fascinated, but with only a facile understanding of these other worlds...
...rags, his homelessness, his poverty, he-Arab, African, Asian or Caucasian-may yet prove to be the man, not alone of the year, but of the century. He is the refugee...
...when white plantation owners started importing them as farmhands. Even in the 1920s, Royal Mead, a spokesman for sugar planters, told a congressional committee: "The white people, the Americans in Hawaii, are going to dominate and will continue to dominate-there's no question about it." But the Caucasian elite did not figure on the dedication of members of the issei (immigrant) generation to the social mobility of their offspring. Though often illiterate, they hammered home the value of education. "When I was still a kid," recalls Governor Ariyoshi, "I told my father I wanted to be a lawyer...