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- noun The act of
mongrelizing
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Examples
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Line segregated the schools in their domains because of their fears that mixing white and black kids would lead to the "mongrelization" of the white race?
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Ironically, Berner says this "mongrelization" of klezmer has resulted in new interest in the tradition.
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As Galton's eugenics programs gained popularity there was much public disapproval of the "mongrelization" of the white race by mixing with blood with the suspect races.
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One could draw some interesting lines from this story toward Lovecraft's hatred of "mongrelization," his fear of the mass man (he wrote this story while still in New York), his strong distaste for social pressures from economics to editing to marriage, his concern with degeneration (expressed here, as in "Cool Air" and perhaps "Doorstep", as deliquescence), and even his architectural mysticism (like "Rats," the monster is in some real way congruent -- sharing grue?
Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2007
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For example, she says, laws prohibiting black and white students from going to school together were ultimately very much about fears of interracial marriage, about what some of the people interviewed in the film might call the ‘mongrelization’ of the white race.
Documentary Examines US Struggle to End Bans on Interracial Marriage 2011
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For example, she says, laws prohibiting black and white students from going to school together were ultimately very much about fears of interracial marriage, about what some of the people interviewed in the film might call the ‘mongrelization’ of the white race.
Documentary Examines US Struggle to End Bans on Interracial Marriage 2011
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Behind the scenes, Republicans will resort to racist fears of race mongrelization.
Obama Camp Hits Hillary Over Campaign Official Who Brought Up His Past Drug Use 2009
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I once pissed off a Rabbi by saying that I hoped my children would continue the mongrelization of the Klein family.
I Volunteer To Be Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Orly Taitz | ATTACKERMAN 2009
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Behind the scenes, Republicans will resort to racist fears of race mongrelization.
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And each, in its fashion, returns to what Rushdie calls "this theme of cultural movement and mongrelization and hybridity."
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