I just saw the first two episodes of the new Ridley Scott TV series, Raised By Wolves, and it was awful. Not because of the cast, but the plot is just terrible. Nevertheless, I noticed how the characters are almost all Black, with the interracial couple, the good Black father... This is imposes by HBO? Just a thought.
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I think the problem is with a lack of really precise, consistent terminology based on new DNA data. I think "Caucasian" should mean exactly what it still does - generally, those human populations that have a mix of Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal DNA (as opposed to C-M X Denisovan and the sub-Saharan "purebred" Cro-Mag populations). "White" would be a subrace ("breed") of Caucasian peculiar to Europe that is generally known for certain "recessive" genes (for light hair and eyes, and skin colour, which seems to have originated in, yes, some tribe in northern Europe and then spread to other European populations). Semites/Arabs and the East Indian types would be each their own breeds of Caucasian (that would be the race, or subspecies, level.) But you'd have to get the eggheads to finish straightening out the mess that Linne made of his own system, and then to look at humans the exact same way they'd look at any other species.