Ironically Caucasian comes from people who hail from the middle east , so plenty of people are fucking up with word uses . Edit What am I being downvoted for ? Okay it ' s not exactly middle east , but it ' s right between the black and caspian sea . Some info Edit 2 More info Apparently some german philosopher called everyone in europe as caucasians as well as everyone in northern africa and what is now russia . I think the dude was like the first hitler without the genocidal inclination , but i digress . This guy took the origin of those from the Caucasus and applied it to everyone in the Western world at that time . Not only did he misuse the name of the people from what is essentially Caucasia , he claimed people of other origins were better looking caucasians than the actual caucasians .