Mongoloid
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- adjective
- /ˈmɒŋɡəˌlɔɪd/
- Slur
- Race is still imagined in terms of hoary typologies that group East Asians as a Mongoloid race.
- Mongoloid race
Examples
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He also recognized Indo-Aryan, Mongoloid, and Negroid elements, assessments based on typecasting rather than on measurement.
Academic text (2018) -
Race is still imagined in terms of hoary typologies that group East Asians as a Mongoloid race.
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So, American Indians were placed under every other category: white, black, Hispanic, Mongoloid, and other.
Academic text (2007) -
Mongoloid features are said to have existed in the time of Homo erectus, over one million years ago.
Academic text (1997) -
For much of the twentieth century, schools taught that there were three races: Caucasoid, Mongoloid, and Negroid.
Academic text (1995) -
Only some features of the key Peking Man skull 101, dated at 16,900 years, are deemed Mongoloid.
Academic text (1997) -
Also, there is no race that can be denoted "Indian," because India is peopled by almost all the major racial classifications - Caucasoid, Mongoloid, and Negritoid - and everything in between.
Blog text (29) -
For much of the twentieth century, schools taught that there were three races: Caucasoid, Mongoloid, and Negroid.
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The theory posited that human beings could be categorized into groups known as Caucasian, Mongoloid, and Negroid.
Synonyms
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A person from Central Asian groups called this in older books
Surface Forms
Morphology
Mongoloid = Mongol + oid
The word is built from 'Mongol' plus the suffix '-oid' meaning 'resembling', but the obsolete anthropological sense is specialized and not fully predictable from the parts.
Etymology
Mongoloid comes from Mongol (people from Mongolia) plus the ending -oid, which, like in asteroid, means 'like', so it originally meant 'like a Mongol' and was used as a racial label. Today the word is outdated and offensive, and people and scientists avoid using it.