Why is the US Govt’s definition of “Caucasians” different from others?

The US Govt defines Caucasians as “White-Americans” where as the rest of world define Caucasians as people whose ancestry can be traced back to Europe, North Africa, West Asia, Indian subcontinent and parts of Central Asia, a region known as the Caucasus.

The way the US and other governments define race is constantly changing because race is just an arbitrary way of dividing up people. Jewish people used to not be considered white for a while in the US. Simply put, race is a social construction rather than a biological one. Everyone has a genotype (their DNA) and a phenotype (how those genes are expressed). Your skin color is a just a very small portion of your genotype. So it is possible that I (being ‘white’) could have a genotype that more closely resembles your genotype than that of another ‘white’ guy. So the way the U.S. and other governments define race has to do with social history.

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