Are we using the term "Caucasian" interchangeably with what people perceive to mean "white"?
Asked & answered --
No genes will be checked -- it's entirely up to you.
I purposely muddled the terms, because that accurately reflects the popular mind (much as "Left = Liberal" or "Patriotic = GOP"
). Really, neither term is well-defined
anywhere.
Some of my roots are so far into Eastern Europe that they might as well be Arabic
so "Caucasian" could be VERY literally true. Then there's the Gypsy strain.
But I don't stand out as particularly different from the other pigmentationally challenged people around here. I worked with my neighbor back in the '70s; we don't look terribly dissimilar, & he's Lebanese. For almost all intents & purposes, I'm
white, though that's a matter of happenstance rather than any pride of heritage. Personally, I'd rather choose
Mixed.
There's the concept Langston Hughes called "that powerful drop" --
The one-drop rule is a social and legal principle of racial classification ... asserting that any person with even one ancestor of sub-Saharan-African ancestry ("one drop" of black blood) is considered black (Negro in historical terms), its implications of racial purity being that anyone unable to pass for white in the context of the US racial hierarchy is assigned the lower status of being non-white or colored.
It ... is an example of
hypodescent, the automatic assignment of children of a mixed union between different socioeconomic or ethnic groups
to the group with the lower status.
The social and legal concept of the "one-drop rule" does not exist outside the United States.
Anything less than "pure white" is thereby
tainted, & of significantly less worth, & that impurity can never be somehow bred out, a permanent stain.
Some like me have for years been saying "eventually, you're gonna run out of 'pure white' genes, then the narrative WILL change." But as not all white folk are terribly bright (or even idly curious), it's only NOW that they realize whiter-than-white is no longer the clear majority, & wackos like POTUS have whipped them into panic that light-skined people are somehow in danger of extinction.