Caucasoid Is it really necessary to mention that some Uyghurs are fair skinned and have Caucasoid traits It sounds a bit like Nazi science to me Luis Rib Well they do have such traits You can phrase it a bit differently if you like 02 24 Oct 4 2004 UTC It wouldn t be necessary if we lived in a world in which race whether considered a real or constructed category was irrelevant Unfortunately that s not the case The ethnic characteristics of Uyghurs play an important role in discussions of the relationship between Uyghurs and Han Chinese and thus how Chinese Xinjiang is or should be In order to understand the politics of Uyghur Chinese relations it s important to know that these characteristics are commonly discussed 20 20 2 February 2006 UTC Why Caucasoid traits These traits are probably more Semitic than Caucasoid 86 166 123 12 The more we try to parse this issue the thornier it gets Read the Caucasian race entry in Wikipedia and see if you can find any way to separate Semitic from Caucasoid The entire concept of race is in dispute and regardless of how people ordinarily discuss differences an encyclopedia ought to try to avoid such uninformed hypotheses in its entries It might be better to describe for example a people as having blue eyes and fair skin and lacking the epicanthic fold as well as being largely Muslim than to try to categorize them by race and so I d agree that dropping Caucasoid would be smart After all much of the European population has at least some Mongolian ancestry as do Iranians Turks Central Asians and so on and Uyghurs are certainly included in this distribution regardless of their Caucasoid traits And if you go back far enough I suppose the entire world population has African ancestry You can see how this can become like an argument about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin and has no place in an encyclopedia that is trying to be authoritative and factual