I think this is one of the silliest uses for words in the English language, as we use this to mean "any white person", although the REAL people in the Caucasus area such as Chechens, Georgians, Azerbaijani, and so on, do not look very similar to average white people in the US. Does anyone know the origin of using this word as a more fancy term for "white"? And is it used in this way only in the US or also in Britain? What are you supposed to call people in the region between the Black and Caspian sea anyway? They have more Middle Eastern features about them but they are not Arabs.

By the way, did you know when filling out the "Race" part of a form, Arabs are supposed to check "Caucasian/White"? I find this silly. Isn't the whole point of asking people what their race is on a form so you can distinguish differences in how the form is filled out between ethnic groups? It seems pretty silly to me that nowadays forms have "Puerto Rican", "Mexican", "Other South American", but no "Arab."