Are the Tatar people Asian or white?

Firstly, Caucasian, is a word that's been misappropriated and given the erroneous definition of “white-skinned person”. Just as “Asian” has incorrectly come to mean 'people of Mongoloid race and appearance, usually those from (south-)east Asian countries specifically'. read more

Geographically speaking, the Tatar people are technically Asian, since they are from the Asian side of Russia. However, the racial descriptors “Asian” and “white” can encompass a large variety of ethnicities. Ethnically speaking, the Tatars would be a west Asian Turkic people. read more

Best Answer: 1) "Tatar" is a collective term for a number of ethnicities. Some of them are Asians while other are of Turkic origin (you should know the difference); 2) Most ethnic Russians are NOT mixed with the Tatars; 3) Celebrities who represent the Russian Federation are not necessarily = ethnic Russians. read more