Is it now improper to use the terms Caucasoid, Ne.groid and Mongoloid...?

Question

Is it now improper to use the terms Caucasoid, Ne.groid and Mongoloid to refer to the three races?

When I first got my drivers license in 1974 the racial catagories were Caucasoid, Ne.groid, Mongoloid 1 (Asian), Mongoloid 2 (AmeriInds).

PC, or NON PC?

Answer 1

Even though it's "unpopular" these days, everyone still knows what you're talking about!

Answer 2

Among anthropologists or population geneticists no one will bat an eyelid, it's used all the time.

Among everyday folk Mongoloid and N3groid can be seen as offensive because of bad prior use.

Anyone who thinks these categories don't get used by modern physical and forensic anthropologists needs to read some text books. They've started to change to euphemisms like Europid, Africoid and Sinoid now and then, but they'll still get used.

Answer 3

The proper usage on races now is usually the skin color like black, white or yellow (Asian). But the terms Caucasoid, Negr.oid and Mongoloid are still used now, mostly to used on broader terms. Since people who are Caucasoid are the Europeans and the white North Americans, and also Middle Easterners and sometimes Indians. While Negroids usually includes black Africans and African Americans. Mongoloids usually include Asians and American Indians.

Its only in the skin color. Everybody belongs to a race or a mixed race.

Answer 4

No, since it is no longer 1974, or so I'm told, often, oddly enough.

Answer 5

I wouldn't say, "improper".

I'd say, invalid.

Answer 6

No i don't think it is classed as politically correct anymore.

My opinion though is the goverment has gone to far on the race thing and it has caused alot of bitterness and racism between alot of races because what you are and not allowed to say to people.  We have gone to PC mad. things seemed happier before when you could say one thing to one person through a joke and they would say something back in jest.

Now you would be taken to court, it's just silliness.

I would like to say thank for your insight on sign language too, your answer was brilliant it just shows by others answers though there is still alot of ignorance in the world.

Thanks again, good luck and take care.

Answer 7

Yes, I believe so. Those terms are now considered racist in most contexts.

But the notion of race is being abandonded. We're all one race. There's no coherent way to divvy us up into categories that are both exhaustive and exclusive (categories such that each person fits into one and only one race).

What are Filipinos? What are Egyptians? What are Myans? What are people born of a Japanese and a Brit?

What's even more important is that there are no significant differences between "races" -- except for mostly trivial physical things.