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What is a mongoloid?

What is a mongoloid? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (anthropology) 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.
  2. (offensive) A person with Down syndrome.
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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.
Nearly 90 percent of the Thai people are Mongoloid, with lighter complexions than their Burmese, Kampuchean, and Malay neighbors.
In North America a group of Mongoloid tribes were now cut off altogether from the old world.
But the transfer of the mongoloid character through the eskimal emigration to the South of the continent is more logical.
Most enduring division of humanity into 3 broad groupings: Mongoloid, Negroid, Caucasoid.
Implicit in the amniocentesis is the decision to abort the baby if it is mongoloid.

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