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The obsolete medical terms Mongolian idiocy and Mongolism referred to a specific type of mental deficiency, associated with the genetic disorder now known as Down syndrome. The obsolete term for a person with this syndrome was called a Mongolian idiot .
Mongolian as a term for race was first introduced in 1785 by Christoph Meiners, a scholar at the then modern Göttingen University.Meiners divided humanity into two races he labeled "Tartar-Caucasians" and "Mongolians", believing the former to be beautiful, the latter to be "weak in body and spirit, bad, and lacking in virtue".
Mongolian idiocy, outdated term for Down syndrome; Mongoloid, populations that show certain phenotypic traits; See also. Mongolian nationalism (disambiguation)
Brousseau is the author of L'éducation des nègres aux États-Unis (1904) and Mongolism: A Study of the Physical and Mental Characteristics of Mongolian Imbeciles (1928). [1] In "Mongolism" Brousseau argues that a precursor of the Mongolian idiocy was to be found in the "furfuraceous cretin" described by Édouard Séguin in Idiocy and its ...
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Mongolian may refer to: Something of, from, or related to Mongolia, a country in Asia; Mongolian people, or Mongols; Bogd Khanate of Mongolia, the government of Mongolia, 1911–1919 and 1921–1924; Mongolian language; Mongolian alphabet; Mongolian (Unicode block) Mongolian cuisine; Mongolian culture
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