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Pare de Chamar os outros de Mongo, Mongoloide ou qualquer coisa do genero!! Veja Porque: They are neither Mongols nor Mongolians you stupid!

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Durante toda minha vida, desde que me lembre, cresci escutando o "xingamento" abaixo sendo usado por colegas, inclusive eu muitas vezes o utilizei, para chatear alguém ou provocar alguem de maneira muitas vezes "inofensiva" mas com certeza pejorativa:

-- Seu Mongol
-- Mongolóide!!
-- Deixa de ser mongo!!!

O Mais interessante é que isso me levou a criar um certo "entendimento" ou correlacionar que "QUEM NASCE NA MONGÓLIA É IDIOTA, OU BURRO, OU ESTÚPIDO" ou qualquer coisa do genero, sendo que cresci achando TOTALMENTE de forma ERRONEA, que quem nascia na Mongólia tinha certos problemas psicologicos, como Sindrome de Down.. etc...

Vejam só como um PRÉ-CONCEITO pode se tornar arraigado e crescer com você durante toda uma vida, sem você saber o porque... e o pior.. sem saber que esta completamente errado...

Mesmo após dezenas de viagens a Asia e a China mais especificamente, ainda, até bem pouco tempo atras, sempre que ouvia ou lia Mongolia, o pensamento acima referente ao pais e as pessoas de lá me vinha a mente...

Bom, isso até comecar a assistir em 2015 a serie MARCO POLO, da NETFLIX, que é uma obra prima televisiva, que retrata o GRANDE IMPÉRIO MONGOL de KUBLAI KHAN descendente direto do grande GENGHIS KHAN, que teve Marco Polo por 17 anos em sua corte!

Enfim... vendo a grandiosidade e a Maestria de Kublai Khan, e como o Império Mongol praticamente conquistou toda a Asia e China durante o periodo de 1100-1200d.c., nao pude deixar de me questionar: "QUEM DIACHOS INVENTOU QUE MONGOLS SAO BURROS OU IDIOTAS ?!?!"

Bom, pesquisando na internet, a mae do conhecimento moderno, me deparei com um frances que fez a mesma pergunta e pesquisou a resposta (apos alguem comentar no seu blog com o insulto Mongoloide, e questionar o frances porque ele foi censurado, já que Mongoloide se tratava teoricamente da doenca cognitiva e nao do pais mongolia...)

Bem, vejam abaixo a materia na integra mas o resultado é que o PROPRIO JOHN LANGDOM DOWN, medico que descobriu a posterior entitulada "SINDROME DE DOWN", foi quem iniciou o equivoco e ultraje de chamar de MONGOIS quem possui esse tipo de desordem cognitiva...

Entao dai derivou chamar pessoas com disturbios cognitivos de Mongois....

Isso mudou apenas muito tempo depois, em 1961, apenas apos um grupo de especialistas em genetica implorar para o nome ser mudado de Mongois para portadores de Sindrome de Down, pois Mongois estava sendo confundido com o Povo da Mongolia!!

Mas entao já era tarde demais e o termo se alastrou até os dias de hoje....

Bom pessoal... ainda bem que CULTURA significa evoluirmos e eliminarmos racismo e preconceitos...

Assim sendo seja culto e pare imediatamente de chamar qualquer pessoa pejorativamente de MONGO ou Mongoloide ou qualquer variacao do mesmo...

E mais, repasse essa mensagem e ensine aos outros para que eles tambem nao cometam o mesmo equivoco.... Especialmente as novas geracoes!

Um forte abraco,

Ivan C. Possamai


They are neither Mongols nor Mongolians you stupid!

Some people like to call others « mongolian » when they do something stupid. In that case, is the word « mongolian » offending? I’ve long thought it was the case but a Youtuber made me revise my opinion. Here’s a little social media case study with some social morale thrown in.

Public Relations on Youtube

Lately, I turned to censorship because I can’t bear the growing number of insulting comments towards some races (Black are monkeys) on one of my Youtube videos.
To put into practice studies in Public Relations, I sometimes write people explaining why I haven’t authorized their comments. I encourage them to make the corrections themselves and re-submit their comments for publication.
In general, people do not reply but yesterday, a Youtuber whose comment was deleted wrote me back.
I had explained in a private message that his comment was rejected because he called another user « mongolian », a term that I find to be pejorative. I told him it could hurt people from Mongolia and even other ethnicities.
He replied arguing that I was confusing mongolians (suffering from genetic problems) with Mongols, an Asian ethnicity. This is how he made me doubt myself. I put my pride aside and sincerely asked myself if I weren’t wrong but a thorough research brought light to my hesitation.

Mongol versus Mongolian

The term « Mongol » describes ethnic groups that can be found in Russia, China but also in Mongolia. Therefore, some individuals of Mongolian nationality also belong to the Mongol ethnic group.
In France, Belgium and some African countries, the word « mongol » is used to call someone stupid. I have observed that in Quebec, people often say « espèce de mongol » when teasing a friend. But there is a but.
One of my good friend has Mongolian roots that are made manifest by her gorgeous eyes. Should I call her mongolian every time she tells me something stupid?

The origins of this insult

British doctor John Langdon Down was the first to use the term « mongolian » when referring to trisomic people. As demonstrated in the following statement, he didn’t choose this term by accident:
A very large number of congenital idiots (those suffering from trisomy) are typical Mongols. So marked is this that, when placed side by side, it is difficult to believe the specimens compared are not children of the same parents.
How arrogant! In 1961, a group of genetic experts asked the term « Down Syndrome » to be adopted as a replacement of « mongol ». Their choice was guided by the following reasoning:
It has long been recognized that the terms ‘Mongolian Idiocy’, ‘Mongolism’, ‘Mongoloid’, etc as applied to a specific type of mental deficiency have misleading connotations. The importance of this anomaly among Europeans and their descendants is not related to the segregation of genes derived from Asians (…) We urge, therefore, that the expressions which imply a racial aspect of the condition be no longer used.
My verdict on the basis of these statements?

I will have the last say

Since only stupid people don’t change their minds, I agree to remain an idiot on this one. I will not change my mind. Calling somebody mongol or mongolian is insulting, both for individuals of this ethnicity and for the ones who suffer from this genetic condition. I rather be wrong and frustrate a web user than supporting offending comments direct towards two communities.
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Journaliste ratée, unconfessed blogger, blasée par le web 2.0. ex-PR student. 100% Multicultural!

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