Definitions
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- noun 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.
- noun dated Someone with
Down syndrome . - noun offensive Idiot,
retard – general term of abuse, due to association with Down syndrome.
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Examples
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The term mongoloid was based on the supposed resemblance between their facial features and Asian ones.
"Many people will express sympathy, but you don’t want or need that, because Trig will be a joy." Ann Althouse 2008
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He used the term mongoloid derived from prevailing ethnic theory.
redding.com Stories 2009
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Hey ... the accepted term to use would be "downs syndrome mug" .... mongoloid is just not cool anymore.
Jason Voorhees Unmasked in Platinum Dunes’ Friday the 13th | /Film 2008
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What do you want to bet that the word mongoloid, when first coined, was meant to be a neutral if not positive word?
"Many people will express sympathy, but you don’t want or need that, because Trig will be a joy." Ann Althouse 2008
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What do you want to bet that the word mongoloid, when first coined, was meant to be a neutral if not positive word?
"Many people will express sympathy, but you don’t want or need that, because Trig will be a joy." Ann Althouse 2008
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Also the 1000 words may represent what the humans have been exposed to or learned because they can't be bothered with learning a "mongoloid" language.
Avatar’s Alien Language is Real, or As Real As Fake Languages Get | /Film 2009
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The "mongoloid" and "stupid asian" comments will stay up, along with all the Jew bashing comments in yesterday's Sciento thread, and the countless spam posts, but toss one little insult at one of the precious OP posters and it will disappear faster than a baker's dozen of donuts on Sally Struthers 'kitchen counter.
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Or any adventures of any kind with her, for that matter, because she was not going to be seen in public with a person who says "vagina" over and over again like some kind of mongoloid with Tourettes.
idiot-milk Diary Entry idiot-milk 2004
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Skulls from 12,000 to 9,000 years ago are of one type, but afterward they are exclusively "mongoloid," says Neves, who suggests that Mongoloid people from the north invaded and wiped out the original Americans, descendants of Australian aborigines, who had sailed across the South Pacific.
Books: Beyond Clovis 1999
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Except the Giant thumbs part … I’m not a friggin mongoloid.
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