EPISODE · Apr 8, 2015 · 27 MIN

The Meaning of Mongol

from The Documentary Podcast: Archive 2015 · host BBC World Service

Imagine your nationality was used by people all around the world to describe someone with a learning disability or a stupid person. Uuganaa Ramsay investigates how the word mongol became a term to describe someone with Down's Syndrome and as a term of abuse meaning an idiot.

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