CAUCASIAN

One of the first anthropologists, Johann Blumenbach, divided all mankind into five races: Caucasian, Mongolian, Ethiopian, American and Malayan. The best-proportioned skull in his collected works was from the Caucasus, so he chose the name Caucasian as symbolizing the supreme sort of the white race.

What's more, Blumenbach thought that the Caucasus was the original habitat of the race known as “Indo-Europeans,” to whom nearly all Western and a few Eastern cultures trace their language origin. These theories are currently not scientific and frequently tinged with racism; still, the word Caucasian is used in default of a better.