I think they meant Caucasian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasian_race

> Introduced in the 1780s by members of the Göttingen school of history, the term denoted one of three purported major races of humans: Caucasoid, Mongoloid, and Negroid

Sounds totally legit.

Caucasian includes South Asians and some East Africans according to that definition.