mongoloid
Noun
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Noun
mongoloid (plural mongoloids)
- (anthropology, dated, offensive) A member of the racial classification of humanity composed of peoples native to North Asia, East Asia, Pacific Oceania, and the Americas, as well as their diaspora in other parts of the world.
- 1997, Masatoshi Nei, Arun K. Roychoudhury, Genetic Relationship and Evolution of Human Races, page 38 ↗,
- As before, the genetic distance between Caucasoid and Mongoloid is the smallest and that between Negroid and Mongoloid is the largest.
- 1997, Masatoshi Nei, Arun K. Roychoudhury, Genetic Relationship and Evolution of Human Races, page 38 ↗,
- (now offensive) A person with Down syndrome.
- 1967, W. Wolfensberger, 13: Counseling Parents of the Retarded, Alfred A. Baumeister (editor), Ameliorating Mental Disability: Questioning Retardation, 2009, page 376 ↗,
- Kirman (1953) drew attention to some physicians' reluctance to offer even ordinary and routine medical care to mongoloids, whose treatment they consider a waste of time.
- 1967, W. Wolfensberger, 13: Counseling Parents of the Retarded, Alfred A. Baumeister (editor), Ameliorating Mental Disability: Questioning Retardation, 2009, page 376 ↗,
- (offensive) Idiot, retard; a general term of abuse, due to association with Down syndrome.
- Portuguese: mongoloide
- Russian: монголо́ид
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