Mongoloid vs Mongol - What's the difference?
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(anthropology) A member of the racial classification of humanity composed of peoples native to North Asia, East Asia, Pacific Oceania, and Greenland, as well as their diaspora in other parts of the world.
* 1983 , Bertha Pauline Dutton, American Indians of the Southwest ,
* 1991 , Floyd James Davis, Who is Black?: One Nation's Definition ,
* 1997 , Masatoshi Nei, Arun K. Roychoudhury, Genetic Relationship and Evolution of Human Races ,
A person with Down syndrome.
* 1967 , W. Wolfensberger, 13: Counseling Parents of the Retarded'', Alfred A. Baumeister (editor), ''Ameliorating Mental Disability: Questioning Retardation , 2009,
* 1977 , Diana Crane, The Sanctity of Social Life: Physicians' Treatment of Critically Ill Patients ,
* 1994 , Meira Weiss, Conditional Love: Parents' Attitudes Toward Handicapped Children ,
(offensive) Idiot, retard; a general term of abuse, due to association with Down syndrome .
A person from Mongolia; a Mongolian.
A member of any of the various Mongol ethnic groups living in The Mongolian People's Republic, the (former) USSR, Tibet and Nepal.
(offensive) (usually mongol ) A person with Down's syndrome.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=17 A member of the nomadic people from the steppes of central Asia who invaded Europe in the 13th Century. The mongol Empire stretched from the Eastern seas of China to the gates of Vienna.
* Mathew Paris Chron. Maj. iv.76ff, Translated from The journey of William Rubruck (Hakluyt Society, 2nd series, no.4; 1900) pp. xv-xvi .
Mongol is a related term of mongoloid.
In offensive terms the difference between mongoloid and mongol
is that mongoloid is idiot, retard; a general term of abuse, due to association with Down syndrome while mongol is (usually mongol) A person with Down's syndrome.As a noun mongoloid
is a member of the racial classification of humanity composed of peoples native to North Asia, East Asia, Pacific Oceania, and Greenland, as well as their diaspora in other parts of the world.As a proper noun Mongol is
a person from Mongolia; a Mongolian.mongoloid
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(wikipedia mongoloid)Alternative forms
* Mongoloid (especially the racial classification)Noun
(en noun)page 3,
- Both American Indians and Mongoloids' have shovel-shaped incisor teeth and, at birth, display the '''Mongoloid''' spot — a blue spot above the rump, which fades within a short time; many also have the ' Mongoloid , or epicanthic, fold of the inner part of the upper eyelid.
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- On the average, he found caucasoids to have the longest heads and mongoloids' the roundest; ' mongoloids the straightest hair and negroids the most tightly curled; caucasoids the narrowest noses and negroids the broadest.
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- As before, the genetic distance between Caucasoid and Mongoloid is the smallest and that between Negroid and Mongoloid is the largest.
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- 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.
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- It is therefore of interest to examine hospital records of mongoloid children with heart defects in order to find out how frequently operations are performed upon these children.
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- The operation made each feature, itself, look O.K., but her overall looks are still those of a Mongoloid . Her facial expression immediately reveals that she is different. She still has that peculiar look. You can see she has Down's syndrome.
Usage notes
Due to associations with old racial (and racist) theories (as with Caucasoid, Negroid), and associations with Down syndrome, the term is often offensive.Derived terms
* mong, mongo (qualifier)See also
* Australoid * Caucasoid * negroid * sinoidmongol
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Proper noun
(en proper noun)citation, passage=The face which emerged was not reassuring. […]. He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls.}}
- They are inhuman and beastly, rather monsters than men, thirsting for and drinking blood, tearing and devouring the flesh of dogs and men, dressed in ox-hides, armed with plates of iron short, stout, thickset, strong, invincible, indefatigable, their backs unprotected, their breasts covered with armour...They have one-edged swords and daggers and spare neither age, nor sex nor condition.