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What is a mongoloid?

Updated: 9/7/2023
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Mongoloid is one of the three historic race categories (the other being Caucasoid and Negroid). This category encompasses the Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Native Americans, Eskimos, etc.


In the past, the term was used as an insulting term towards people of Down syndrome.
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the term comes from the mongolian people of East Asia, who had a reputation in Europe for ruthless expansionism and massacre of enemy populations. in forensics, Mongoloid is considered a skull type that is used to determine the probable soft tissue reconstruction of discovered human remains. it has also been used as a synonym for persons with Down Syndrom and in American English as being an insult meaning Idiot. Mongoloid refers to diverse ethnic groups instead of homogenous groups.

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The race that comprises the Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Vietnamese, and the rest of the East Asians, and Arctic Americans.

Native Americans are sometimes classified as Mongoloid, but several studies claim that they aren't.

In the past, "Mongoloid" was also used as a term for a person with down syndrome.

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Examples of Mongoloids include East Asians, Polynesians, South East Asians, Siberians, Arctic Americans and arguably the rest of the American aboriginals.

The term was also once used as an insult towards people with Down Syndrome.

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Mongoloid or down sydrome or Trisomy 21. A genetic defect that can cause mental retardation characterized by simean crease, low bridge nose,hypotonia, big abdomen,

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