Mongoloid
by Devo

Album: Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! (1977)
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  • Lyrics currently unavailable Writer/s: Gerald Casale
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.

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  • Dark Star from OregonThe term "mongoloid", as an ethnonym wasn't pejorative originally, but simply followed what was then the standard terminology of the time, and was derived from the name of the country and the typical upper eyelid structure of Down patients. Parallel terms were used for all of the major ethnicities; "caucasoids" were basically white people, "australoids" were indigenous Australians, and so on.

    In 1965 the World Health Organization stopped using the term Mongolian or mongoloid to refer to the syndrome, following a request by the People's Republic of Mongolia. The terms finally passed out of general acceptability and usage some years later.
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