ところが、wikiのCaucasian raceの英文では過去形になってる。
In his earlier racial typology, Meiners put forth that
Caucasians had the "whitest, most blooming
and most delicate skin".[7]
Europeans with darker skin he considered "dirty whites",
admixed with Mongolian.
Such views were typical of early scientific attempts at racial classification,
where skin pigmentation was regarded as the main difference between races.
This view was shared by the French naturalist Julien-Joseph Virey, who believed that the Caucasians were only the palest-skinned Europeans.[8]