A member of the Altaid race or population group, a term used in older anthropological classifications of Central Asian peoples.
From Altai region + the suffix '-id,' used in early 20th-century anthropology (now considered outdated) to classify racial and ethnic groupings by geographic origin.
This word is a relic of scientific racism—early anthropologists classified humans into 'racial' types by region, but modern genetics shows these categories were meaningless fictions that caused real harm.
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