My dear we r talking about the white race, which dating back to the Romans who had a good water system going on. they were called the aqua.....water glowing in canals going upto public places where they would bath! the romans were better in cleaning themselves than the English 300 years ago. The romans are 1000s old
I doubt the Romans and Greeks considered themselves "white". They were participants and inheritors of the great near-eastern and Mediterranean civilisations of Minoa, Egypt, Phoenicia and Anatolia. They would have considered a German or English person as a barbarian, no better than an animal.