Mongoloid
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The term Mongoloid is most used in discussions of human prehistory and in the forensic analysis of human remains. The suffix -oid indicates "a similarity, not necessarily exact, to something else". Mongoloid, therefore, may not automatically imply earlier terms such as Mongolian race or Asiatic - whatever the parameters for their definitions may be - and much less the nationality Mongolian.
As a form of classification, Mongoloid includes peoples of North Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, parts of Central Asia and South Asia, and, arguably by extension, people from Pacific Oceania, the Americas and Greenland. Some populations of Northern Europe and Eastern Europe have Mongoloid ancestry as well. Some definitions do not include Native Americans.