culturocide

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A form of culturicide — The systematic destruction of a culture, particularly one unique to a specific ethnicity, or a political, religious, or social group.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

nounculturocide (countable and uncountable, plural culturocides)

plural culturocides

  1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of culturicide.

    That is, there are two inevitable consequences in establishing a religion-based nation: genocide and/or culturocide, that is, a systematic liquidation of cultures.

    2005, T K Oommen, Crisis and Contention in Indian Society, →ISBN, page 110
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    And this too, I thought, was part of the Soviet culturocide— that Jewish philosophical thought is kept stunted, arrested, medievalized, for lack of the opportunity to receive a single independent Jewish book or magazine from abroad.

    1964, Judaism - Volume 13, page 95

    But in the case of the New World—Americas and Australia—the Europeans settled down and replicated their societies and marginalised the natives (aborigines) through genocide and culturocide.

    2013, Ishwar modi, Readings in Indian Sociology: Volume X: Pioneers of Sociology in India, →ISBN

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