Problem
Cultural suicide
Other Names:
Voluntary cultural deathLoss of cultural identity
Death of cultural soul
Nature:
When a people begins to ignore its own culture and neglect its language, accepting the invasion of some foreign language, and when its leading scientists and writers start to publish the products of their intellect in foreign languages and not in their own, then the people in question is on the road to the destruction of its own culture, or cultural suicide.
Incidence:
It was claimed by a former chancellor of Germany in 1992 that the soul of the German people was in danger with the problem of violence against foreigners.
Broader Problems:
Ethnic disintegrationRapidly changing culturesLoss of cultural diversityHomogenization of cultures Narrower Problems:
Loss of linguistic traditionObsolete basis of cultural identity Related Problems:
SuicideDeath of the soulErosion of cultural identityDivisive effects of official cultural pluralism Aggravates:
Ethnocide Strategies:
Killing culture Subject(s):
Consciousness → Consciousness Culture → Culture
Government → Citizenship
Life → Death
Social Activity → Voluntary
Societal Problems → Maltreatment
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Problem Type:
F: Fuzzy exceptional problems Date of last update
04.10.2020 – 22:48 CEST