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John Langdon Down, who discovered Down’s syndrome in the 1860s, used “mongolism” and “mongoloid” to describe the syndrome as he stated that there were similar physical characteristics of people with Down’s syndrome to people from Mongolia and Mongoloid race (those of Asian ethnicity). This phrase was used until the 1960s, when ...
In no way should "mongoloid trait," an anthropological term, be considered diagnostic of trisomy 21, or Down syndrome. – Michael Owen Sartin Commented Nov 21, 2013 at 14:48
Crudely, "Mongoloid" was a partially accurate description of the physical characteristics of a condition. By contrast "Downs' syndrome" is not only meaningless without prior knowledge; it's not even grammatical. "A Mongoloid child" has both meaning and grammatical correctness; "a Downs' syndrome child" clearly lacks both.
When I was a child I remember frequently hearing references to "oriental" people. Of course "oriental" now has a pejorative connotation, and generally "asian" is preferred. However, I can't help but feel like "asian", even if it is a step forward socially, is a small step backward in specificity.
The terms "Caucasoid," "Mongoloid," and "Negroid" are inevitably tied to the racial theories of the people who coined and used the terms. These theories included skin color as a determinative, and they have been abandoned by scientists and reasonable people.
Mongoloids range from Central Asia to Tierra del Fuego, and constitute the majority of humans, so one could say they are typically human! The pseople Americans call Asians, Amerindians, Polynesians - all are Mongoloid. The sub-Saharan black Africans are the major part of the Negroid branch. Australian aborigines and Melanesians are a minor part.
As for the epithets mongol, and mongy, both are derived from mongoloid which used to be the medical term for those afflicted with Down's Syndrome, mongol later became highly derogatory and it is currently used as an insult to anyone whose behaviour or intelligence is considered subnormal or below average. I would advise not to use it ...
4. According to Etymology Online, the use of "kid" to refer to a human child was established in informal English usage by 1812, but was used as slang (not sure what the difference is in connotation here between "informal" and "slang") as early as 1590. The term may have first been applied to human children in reference to similarities between a ...
I was looking for a term to define the eyes shape of oriental people and I discovered that the term slant-eye is a derogatory one: (offensive) a person with slanting eyes; especially , on...
Mongoloid is basically a physiognomic descriptor; people with Down Syndrome have nothing to do with Mongolia. The transition from idiot and moron is a matter of gradually distinguishing between different kinds of cognitive disability; there are some people who today are very productive members of society who might have been institutionalized as ...