A Couple of Mutts

We take great pride in the patchwork ancestry of our new leader. We are right to do so, but he's not unique. Look at what Wiki says about French President Nicolas Sarkozy:

Nicolas Sarkozy is the son of an aristocratic Hungarian immigrant father, Pál Sárközy de Nagy-Bócsa (Hungarian: nagybócsai Sárközy Pál; some sources spell it Nagy-Bócsay Sárközy Pál; ... and a mother of French Catholic and Greek-Sephardic Jewish descent, Andrée Mallah. His Greek-born grandfather, Benico Mallah (former Aaron Mallah), was a physician from Thessaloniki. Benico, who left for France to become a doctor, was the son of Mordechai Mallah, one of the eight sons of Aaron Mallah, founder of the Rabbinical School of Thessaloniki.

Pál Sárközy was born in 1928 in Budapest into a family belonging to the lower nobility of Hungary. The family possessed lands and a small castle in the village of Alattyán, near Szolnok, 92 km (57 miles) east of Budapest. Pál Sárközy's father and grandfather held elective offices in the town of Szolnok. Although the Sárközy de Nagy-Bócsa (nagybócsai Sárközy) family was Protestant, Pál Sárközy's mother, Katalin Tóth de Csáford (Hungarian: csáfordi Tóth Katalin), grandmother of Nicolas Sarkozy, was from a Catholic aristocratic family.

So, a couple of mutts. Expanding on this topic, Ignoto asks: what is the difference betweeen a mutt and a mongrel?

Very good question. My guess would be that "mutt" is far the more acceptable term: almost a term of endearment; one can use it on oneself, as a form of comic self deprecation. "Mongrel" inspires dark fantasies of miscegenation and similar ugly stuff.* There never was a comic strip called "Mongrel and Jeff." Maybe I can file this one next to "Cad and Bounder."
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*Idling in the campus bookstore just now, I see a copy of Clarence E. Walker, Mongrel Nation: The America Begotten by Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings. Sounds like a snarl word to me.