HUMAN RACES 'Yellow or Mongolian breed, yellow-brown, sooty or olive-brown, black hair, rare, bristly, face flattened, wide in the cheeks of the cheeks, tight in the chin, divergent eyes, protruding nose, large and very detached ears, quadrangular head jutting jaws '. Original caption drawn up according to the nineteenth-century concept of 'race', which although it remains in the common language is considered scientifically overcome in the late following century, and better defined by the term considered even more politically correct than 'ethnicity' or 'phenotype', depending on the context. Detail from table V, 'Overview of all the races of the globe and their style of dressing', from 'La Geografia at a glance', Lithograph Corbetta, Milan,1853.

HUMAN RACES 'Yellow or Mongolian breed, yellow-brown, sooty or olive-brown, black hair, rare, bristly, face flattened, wide in the cheeks of the cheeks, tight in the chin, divergent eyes, protruding nose, large and very detached ears, quadrangular head jutting jaws '. Original caption drawn up according to the nineteenth-century concept of 'race', which although it remains in the common language is considered scientifically overcome in the late following century, and better defined by the term considered even more politically correct than 'ethnicity' or 'phenotype', depending on the context. Detail from table V, 'Overview of all the races of the globe and their style of dressing', from 'La Geografia at a glance', Lithograph Corbetta, Milan,1853.

HUMAN RACES 'Yellow or Mongolian breed, yellow-brown, sooty or olive-brown, black hair, rare, bristly, face flattened, wide in the cheeks of the cheeks, tight in the chin, divergent eyes, protruding nose, large and very detached ears, quadrangular head jutting jaws '. Original caption drawn up according to the nineteenth-century concept of 'race', which although it remains in the common language is considered scientifically overcome in the late following century, and better defined by the term considered even more politically correct than 'ethnicity' or 'phenotype', depending on the context. Detail from table V, 'Overview of all the races of the globe and their style of dressing', from 'La Geografia at a glance', Lithograph Corbetta, Milan, 1853.

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