Mongoloid
by Devo

Album: Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! (1977)
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  • Mongoloid, he was a mongoloid
    Happier than you and me

    Mongoloid, he was a mongoloid
    And it determined what he could see

    Mongoloid, he was a mongoloid
    One chromosome too many

    Mongoloid, he was a mongoloid
    And it determined what he could see

    And he wore a hat
    And he had a job
    And he brought home the bacon
    So that no one knew

    He was a mongoloid

    Mongoloid, he was a mongoloid
    His friends were unaware

    Mongoloid, he was a mongoloid
    Nobody even cared

    Mongoloid, he was a mongoloid
    One chromosome too many

    Mongoloid, he was a mongoloid
    And it determined what he could see

    And he wore a hat
    And he had a job
    And he brought home the bacon
    So that no one knew

    He was a mongoloid

    Mongoloid, he was a mongoloid
    Happier than you and me

    Mongoloid, he was a mongoloid
    And it determined what he could see

    Mongoloid, he was a mongoloid
    One chromosome too many

    Mongoloid, he was a mongoloid
    And it determined what he could see

    And he wore a hat
    And he had a job
    And he brought home the bacon
    So that no one knew

    He was a mongoloid
    He was a mongoloid Writer/s: Gerald Casale
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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Comments: 1

  • 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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