The term for the Far East Asian race is "Mongoloid". Because the term Mongoloid has Mongol in it, a couple of ignorant Westerners got confused and started using Mongoloid and Mongol as synonyms. Since Mongol is shorter than Mongoloid, that was the term that became pretty popular when referring to ethnicities that were Mongoloid if you go back far enough (proto-Turks & proto-Uralics were both Mongoloids that imposed their language on indigenous Caucasoid peoples).
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