Cultural Genocide

A Cultural Genocide is a attempted destruction of a culture.

• Example(s):
  • that against the North American Culture, e.g. via Indian residential school systems.
  • in the Bosnian War during the Siege of Sarajevo, cultural genocide was committed by Bosnian Serb forces.
  • the destruction by Azerbaijan of thousands of medieval Armenian Churches, khachkars and gravestones at a cemetery in Julfa.
  • the Japanese occupation of Korea.
  • the Uyghur Genocide.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • Cultural Appropriation,
  • Cultural Assimilation,
  • Cultural Heritage,
  • Cultural Imperialism,
  • Cultural Revolution,
  • Forced Assimilation,
  • Institutional Racism.
• See: Ethnocide, Ethnic cleansing, United Nations Declaration on The Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Genocide, Tsitsernakaberd, Ethnicity, Culture.

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References

2023

• (Wikipedia, 2023) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cultural_genocide Retrieved:2023-1-3.
  • Cultural genocide or cultural cleansing is a concept which was proposed by lawyer Raphael Lemkin in 1944 as a component of genocide. Though the precise definition of cultural genocide remains contested, the Armenian Genocide Museum defines it as "acts and measures undertaken to destroy nations' or ethnic groups' culture through spiritual, national, and cultural destruction."

    Some ethnologists, such as Robert Jaulin, use the term ethnocide as a substitute for cultural genocide, although this usage has been criticized as risking the confusion between ethnicity and culture. Juxtaposed next to ethnocide, cultural genocide was considered in the 2007 United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; however, it was removed in the final document and simply replaced with "genocide".

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