mongrelization
- noun
- /ˌmʌŋɡrəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/
- Slur
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[insulto racista para la mezcla de razas o culturas]
- Then-Prime Minister Nakasone Yasuhiro made it clear in 1986 just who provided the negative component of "mongrelization" when he commented that Japanese IQs were much higher than those of Americans because the United States has blacks and Hispanics.
Examples
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The speaker expressed disdain for mongrelization, arguing that cultural mixing undermines the integrity of traditional values.
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This fueled the fury of the whites, whose deepest fears were over intermarriage and the "mongrelization" of the Caucasian race.
Academic text (2005) -
It is impossible to understand the brutalities of the below quotation without knowing what happens to white nations after allowing mestization or mongrelization of the previous Aryan gene pool.
Blog text (24) -
Many critics of immigration use the term mongrelization to suggest that racial and cultural mixing is harmful to society.
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The controversial book discusses the concept of mongrelization as a negative consequence of globalization and cultural integration.
Synonyms
3
9.9
The mixing of people from different races when they marry or have children
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7.1
People of different races who have children together
Antonyms
How Mixed
Surface Forms
Morphology
mongrelization = mongrelize (semi-transparent) = mongrel + ize + ation
The relation 'mongrelize' -> 'mongrelization' is a regular nominalization (-ation) and is morphologically transparent.
Etymology
Mongrelization comes from the word mongrel ('mixed-breed animal') and the ending -ization ('the act of'). A helpful way to remember the offensive sense is that it compares the mixing of human groups to mixing animals, which is why many people find the word hurtful and rooted in racist ideas.