Ethnocide

Ethnocide is the extermination or destruction of cultures.[1][2][3]

Reviewing the legal and the academic history of the usage of the terms genocide and ethnocide, Bartolomé Clavero differentiates them by stating that "Genocide kills people while ethnocide kills social cultures through the killing of individual souls".[4] According to Martin Shaw, ethnocide as cultural genocide is a core component of physically violent genocide.[1] While the term "ethnocide" and "ethnic cleansing" are similar, the intentions of their use vary. The term "ethnic cleansing" has been criticized as a euphemism for genocide denial, while "ethnocide" tries to facilitate the opposite.[5][6]

Because concepts such as cultural genocide and ethnocide have been used in different contexts, the anthropology of genocide examines their inclusion and exclusion in law and policies.[7]

  1. ^ a b Martin Shaw (20 March 2007). What is Genocide. Polity. pp. 66–67. ISBN 978-0-7456-3182-0. Archived from the original on 13 May 2020. Retrieved 28 February 2013. So the idea that ethnocide or 'cultural genocide' is distinct from physically violent genocide is misleading, since cultural genocide can only be the cultural dimension of genocide, something which is integral to every genocidal attack. ... It is better to refer to cultural suppression as the pre-genocidal denial of culture, because the cultural dimension of genocide or cultural suppression is part of a broader genocidal process, and it is different from unintentional group destruction or destruction which occurs when groups are destroyed by diseases and famines which were originally unintended.
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  5. ^ Heiskanen, Jaakko (2021-10-01). "In the Shadow of Genocide: Ethnocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and International Order". Global Studies Quarterly. 1 (4). doi:10.1093/isagsq/ksab030. ISSN 2634-3797.
  6. ^ Watch, Genocide (2023-06-28). "'Ethnic Cleansing' is a euphemism used for genocide denial". genocidewatch. Retrieved 2024-01-16.
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