Meanings
- derogatoryuncountablegovernmentSelf-loathing on the grounds of one's own race or ethnicity.
The TV channel Arte, funded by German and French taxpayers, promotes a culture of guilt, ethnomasochism and is infatuated with extreme left-wing causes when it comes to cultural and society-related issues.
2011, jean-mar...@laposte.net, “Arte = das Fernsehen das Dich, das uns verhässt (4)”, in soc.culture.german (Usenet)2 more examples
We also need to do away with stupid theories of 'colonial and postcolonial exploitation' of poor states. We have had enough ethnomasochism. We keep hearing that they are 'great civilisations'. Let them prove it!
2012, Guillaume Faye, Convergence of Catastrophes, page 188Apparently it was not enough to be subjected to endless lectures of ethnomasochism inducing propaganda from hostile professors and naive elementary educators, hammering home the notion since kindergarten that his ancestors were evil […]
2016, Brandon Adamson, Beatnik Fascism, page 8
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ethnomasochism. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ethnomasochism
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