"So does my sister and I'm pretty sure we have no Mongoloid ancestry."

So? Despite Lars' comments (and when are they ever helpful?) "mongoloid features" does not mean mongoloid ancestry. It means having a set of features that are similar to features very common in what is known as the "mongoloid race". Significantly more common than in the other two.

It does not mean that Hungarians look Japanese, it means that isolated features that are very common in the mongoloid race are also very common among (in this instance) hungarians. At least more so than in the caucasian population in general.

I know a lot of Norwegians, "pure bred" so to speak, who look "mediterranean" (Arab /Spanish/ Italian /Greek) without any identifiable link to mediterranean ancestry.  What we think of as "population characteristics" are groupings of features that to a noteworthy degree are statistically more present in one group than in groups it's being compared to. Significantly enough that they are seen as defining physical characteristics.

this post reminds me of the song "Turning Japanese" by the Vapors....

Is the Dr. Droom material reprinted anywhere? Because now I want it!

Cheers, Jon

Edited versions of some of the stories were reprinted in Weird Wonder Tales #19-22 as "Dr. Druid" stories.  They're all included as part of the Amazing Fantasy Omnibus: 

http://www.amazon.com/Amazing-Fantasy-Omnibus-v-1/dp/0785124 586/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1309011628&sr =1-1

(Although I have to say, the real gems in that volume are the Lee/Ditko collaborations...)

QUOTE: "So does my sister and I'm pretty sure we have no Mongoloid ancestry." So? Despite Lars' comments (and when are they ever helpful?) "mongoloid features" does not mean mongoloid ancestry. It means having a set of features that are similar to features very common in what is known as the "mongoloid race". Significantly more common than in the other two. It does not mean that Hungarians look Japanese, it means that isolated features that are very common in the mongoloid race are also very common among (in this instance) hungarians. At least more so than in the caucasian population in general. I know a lot of Norwegians, "pure bred" so to speak, who look "mediterranean" (Arab /Spanish/ Italian /Greek) without any identifiable link to mediterranean ancestry.  What we think of as "population characteristics" are groupings of features that to a noteworthy degree are statistically more present in one group than in groups it's being compared to. Significantly enough that they are seen as defining physical characteristics.

That was the point I was making as well.

I have a hard time with how people are "offended" by being called Oriental. If I was Asian, I'd much prefer to be "from the Orient" or Oriental. It sounds way more exotic than Asian. Asian sounds like a salad dressing.

"I have a hard time with how people are "offended" by being called Oriental"

Well, for quite some time the word was "barnacled" with offensive and racist connotations. Also, the terms Western (occidental) and Eastern (Oriental) base themselves on a world map where Europe (or possibly Rome) is the Center of the Universe. We mostly accept them now as a functional shorthand, but we should at the very least acknowledge that there is an ethnic or cultural bias behind the use of these terms.

I mean, logically Americans should describe China and Japan as the Near West, not the Far East, right?