Circassia, a region of the Caucasus Mountains, became ground zero for Western notions of white beauty. ![]() Blumenbach may not have become especially famous, and craniometry (along with phrenology, a sister pseudoscience devoted to divining personality from the bumps on one’s skull) only had a short period of dubious fame, but the stereotype of idealized Caucasian beauty caught on fast.
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