bastardization

1. (by extension) The combining of separate races in marriage or breeding; miscegenation.Examples: "This is a basis for a natural, even though slow, process of regeneration, which gradually eliminates racial poisonings as long as a basic stock of racially pure elements is still present and a further bastardization does not take place."; "It is emphasized that the subject of bastardization in man is one of the most fundamental of anthropological questions and one which has hitherto not received its due quota of attention."; "Those people, in regard to appearance and way of life, were so different from the White people that intermingling or bastardization could practically not take place. The biological position was of such a nature that there was no possibility of bastardization. In spite of that, bastardization did take place here and there, and the progeny of that bastardization were so far removed from the Whites, and the Whites no longer had the biological ally, if I may call it that, to help them to remain White."broadlycountableuncountable

2. (more generally) The creation of an inferior copy or version; corruption, degradation, or debasement.Examples: "In this manner they viewed traditional aspects of civilization as parts of the legitimate identity of a culture. Consequently, they could interpret religion as one meaningful way for each culture to deal with external reality rather than as a superstitious bastardization of reason."; "This may include the bastardization or demolition of a building that no longer has a community to serve it or where its builders lack the economic or political power to resist threatening 'regeneration' or 'improvement plans'."; "It was an hour of bastardization of fine music that I suppose delighted the folks in Cedar Rapids and Buffalo."broadlycountableuncountable