Talk:Koryaks

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You probably mean mongolid and not mongoloid (with the 3rd O), the latter being a serious medical condition and most probably offending for the Koryaks, as it implies mental deficiencies. -- Szabi 22:21, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

Doesn't "Mongoloid" mean Mongol? Besides, I doubt there are many Koryans here, anyway.--68.170.86.111 20:50, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

That’s right, more or less. "Mongoloid" means "resembling the Mongols" and is one of the three old anthropological racial types: Mongoloid, Negroid, Caucasoid. In recent decades, these terms have come to be seen as too imprecise and impractical, and are now rarely used by anthropologists in this sense. Mongoloid still has the meaning of "resembling the Mongols," however. Mongoloid also has the meaning that Szabi ascribes to it, i.e., pertaining to a pathological condition known as mongolism, but in this sense it usually is not capitalized: mongoloid, mongalism. And in this regard, I believe the medical profession no longer uses the term much, preferring more precise names such as Down syndrome instead. —Stephen 09:07, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

number way too low, even contradict number in Kamchatka

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamchatka

this article claims there are more Koryaks in Kamchatka alone! Well, at least one of the articles must be incorrect?

Evilbu 16:02, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

Bias

There is some extreme cultural bias in this article that needs to be fixed. Why is there little mention of early, traditional history? Where are a list of notable Koryaks? This article should be put on some list that experts look at soon.CharlesRobertCountofNesselrode 23:35, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

When outnumbered they would kill their women and children, set fire to their homes, and die fighting. Doubt in that. Their traditional homes made from animal skins and its not easy to set it on fire without gasoline or somth... They burned their dead. Doubt in that to. Because there are simply not to much wood in that area. And chukchi, for example, just leave their dead in tundra for wild animals. I belive Koryaks have pretty much the same traditions. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.110.23.252 (talk) 21:47, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

The passage in the article currently reads like a classical story of fictional savages. It probably is one. Digwuren 12:39, 4 September 2007 (UTC)