The Documentary Podcast: Archive 2015 - The Meaning of Mongol

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.

Published on Wednesday, 8th April 2015.

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