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mongolia
Finnish
Etymology
< Mongolia
Noun
mongolia
- The Mongolian language.
Declension
Synonyms
- mongolian kieli
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mongoloid
English
Alternative forms
- Mongoloid (especially the racial classification)
Etymology
Mongol +? -oid
Noun
mongoloid (plural mongoloids)
- (anthropology, dated, offensive) A member of the racial classification of humanity composed of peoples native to North Asia, Central 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.
Usage notes
Due to associations with old racial (and racist) theories (as with Caucasoid, Negroid), and associations with Down syndrome, the term is highly offensive.
Derived terms
- (idiot, retard): mong, mongo (British, chiefly Scottish)
Related terms
- Mongol
- Mongolian
- mongolism
Translations
See also
- Australoid
- Caucasoid
- negroid
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?m???olo??i?t/
Adjective
mongoloid (not comparable)
- (somewhat dated) affected by the Down syndrome; mongoloid
Usage notes
- The German adjective is not usually considered offensive, or at most very slightly so. Nevertheless, constructions with Downsyndrom are now more common.
Derived terms
- Mongo
See also
- mongolid (“of the Mongoloid race”)
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