mongrel:
(plural: ‘mongrels‘; pronunciation: the letter ‘g’ is said with a ‘g’ sound as in “grass” — for the right pronunciation of this word, please click here)
a family of mongrels
any person of mixed races or origin, i.e. a person born to parents from different races, e.g. father from South America and mother from Africa, father from Japan and mother from Britain or father from Asia and mother from Australia, and so on,
My class-mate Lee, whose father is Japanese and mother Spanish, gets mad when anybody calls him a mongrel.
President Obama was very lucky for getting away with the very discriminating remark that ‘Americans are a sort of mongrel people’ he made in a TV show because most Americans received it in a light-hearted manner.
There is a debate going on in corner or the other of the world over the use of the word ‘mongrels’ to refer to people of mixed races… some supporting the usage and some opposing it.
