The term Mongoloid race or Mongoloid sometimes referred to as "Sinoid", "Mongolid" or "Xanthrochroid"[2] or Asio-American[3] or Eastern Eurasian[4], is most used in discussions of human prehistory, historical definitions of race and in the forensic analysis of human remains. It is known as one of three major races of physical anthropology.
The suffix "-oid" indicates a similarity, not necessarily exact, to something else. Mongoloid, therefore, does not necessarily equate to earlier terms such as "Mongolian" — whatever the parameters for their definitions may be — and much less does it equate to the Mongolian nationality.
Racial classification, and even the existence of race, is controversial. The -oid racial terms are now often controversial in both technical and non-technical contexts and are likely to give offense no matter how they are used.
Usage
"Mongoloid" loosely applies to physical traits and not to contemporary or historic definitions of racial or social groups. Some current terms for the latter are Asian, East Asian, Southeast Asian, and Oriental; however the range of Mongoloid does not correspond exactly to any one of these. In regards to "Asian", it can be said that North Asians, East Asians, and Southeast Asians are physically Mongoloid. Many Central Asians are Mongoloid, such as the Kazakhs, Kyrgyz and Uighurs, but many are a generic mix of Caucasoid and Mongoloid. South Asians are predominantly Caucasoid, with the exception of Tibeto-Burman speaking peoples living in the northeast, such as the Nagas. West Asians (Middle Easterners) are classified as Caucasoids, though some Turkish people have Mongoloid traits, proof of their Central Asian heritage .
Since people with Down syndrome have some superficially Mongoloid physical characteristics of epicanthal fold and brachycephalization, the term "Mongol" or "Mongoloid Idiocy"[7] was once also used as a synonym for retardation. It was also employed by some, primarily in John Langdon Down's Observations on the Ethnic Classification of Idiots (1866), as an alleged evolutionary degeneration when applied to Caucasoids. For these reasons, the usage of the term Mongoloid for racial purposes has acquired offensive connotations for some people. Due to this offensive use, the term Eastern Eurasian has been proposed as a euphemism for the term Mongoloid.
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Geographic rangeThe Mongoloid classification has long been debated as to whom it includes. As a form of classification by Carleton S. Coon (1904-1981), "Mongoloid" includes the indigenous peoples of North Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, and some parts of Central Asia and South Asia.
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Most people from South Asia are usually classified as Caucasoid, while most of those from Central Asia as intermediate.
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By extension, Mongoloid may include Polynesians from the mid-Pacific Oceania, the indigenous peoples of the Americas, and those of Greenland.
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Some indigenous populations of Northern Europe (eg. the Sami of Finland) and some Eastern Europeans are said to have cranial morphology (brachycephalicy, high zygomas, etc.) but not pigmentation (blondism, eye color, etc) resembling Mongoloids.
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Mongoloid peoples may be the most spread out among all human populations. According to Carleton S. Coon's definition, they have stretched almost completely around the earth's surface as either aboriginals (the first to arrive in a given region) or as conquering migrants.