Phil, it has to be more complex than that surely. Using the term Caucasian (I think) puts white Britons like you and I in same 'club' as Asians from (say) India or Sri Lanka. Doing no more research than a quick Google/Wiki the term seems to use the sort of classification techniques around noses and lips that defined race in apartheid SA. On that basis I'm suspicious of it.
Surely in context here it's about ethnicity; partly a more refined definition of race and partly about culture including religion. In fact, if one extends nationality, and I would say race too, to include clan or tribe you're not far from the mark.
Interesting to note that white Australians being held hostage by a brown man in Sydney got a thread started here in short order. Mass murder in a near civil war in Asia OTOH scores only a passing mention to justify a misconception about religion and race.
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