Ethnocide
Name(s):
Cultural genocide
Cultural ethnocide
Dependence on ethnocide
Suppression of culture
Nature
A culture may be suppressed by the prohibition of the use of its language, and the destruction or prevention of use of libraries, museums, ethnic schools, historic monuments, places of worship and other cultural institutions and objects. In its extreme form it may involve the prevention of births among an ethnic group and transference of children to another group. Cultural genocide may refer to ethnic groups but also to intellectual schools of thought and nations under foreign domination.
The systematic extermination of native races and indigenous tribes by outsiders, either 'nationals' of the country in question, or foreigners, is undertaken in order to expropriate land and safeguard implanted workers from attack. Ethnocide may be by killing or by destruction of the social structure and pauperization of the people or their enslavement, leading to disease, death, and lack of reproduction.
Incidence
Ethnocide has been practised by colonists especially in Africa, the Americas and in Australia. It is alleged that ethnocide continues to be practised in some countries, with or without the tacit approval of the government. Recent examples are in Romania against the ethnic Hungarians and in Bulgaria against ethnic Turks.
Counter-claim
"The Indians are of no interest, they are total savages, they have no law, no religion and live like animals", (former senior civil servant in Brazil: "The Primitive Tribes of South America" by Conrad Gorinsky).
Narrower
Aggravates
Cultural revolution [in 2 loops]
Denial of right to cultural identity [in 1 loop]
Aggravated by
Value(s)
Type
(C) Cross-sectoral problems