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Old 05-07-2013, 17:21   #35
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Originally Posted by Sigaba View Post
The Tsarnaev brothers are no longer white because...?
Because they came from Central Asia?

So given the Mongol influence, they could be geographically and ethnically Asian, at least partially.

But the area of Dagestan is also part of the Caucasus, so they might be Caucasian.

http://www.infoplease.com/encycloped...#ixzz2SeSqeA5i

"An ancient area of human settlement, Dagestan belonged to Caucasian Albania in the 1st millennium B.C. It was later invaded by Huns, Persian Sassanids, and, in the 7th cent. A.D., by Arabs, who introduced Islam. Taken by the Turks in the 11th cent. and the Mongols in the 13th cent., the region became the center of a struggle between Turkey and Persia in the 15th cent. It was a Persian province when Russia annexed it by the Treaty of Gulistan in 1813. Muslim mountain dwellers resisted Russian domination until 1859, and a new revolt erupted in 1877, during the Russo-Turkish war of that year. Dagestan came under Soviet rule in 1920 and in 1921 was made an autonomous republic."

Maybe we shouldn't be putting ourselves into these neat little boxes, since most of us have a wide variety of ancestry.

Why does it really matter?

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