ethnosuicide

plural ethnosuicides

1. The destruction of an ethnic identity by members of that ethnicity.

   The call to commit ethnosuicide is perplexing, for it led the Nahuas to wonder why they were asked to destroy their culture and selves [...]

   2011, José Rabasa, chapter 1, in Tell Me the Story of How I Conquered You: Elsewheres and Ethnosuicide in the Colonial Mesoamerican World, page 13

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   R. M. Boyer has postulated that a societal safeguard against ethnosuicide is to be found in the widespread dependent tendencies combined with retention of individual rights of decision-making.

   1964, L. Bryce Boyer, “Folk Psychiatry of the Apaches of the Mescalero Indian Reservation”, in Ari Kiev, editor, Magic, Faith, and Healing: Studies in Primitive Psychiatry Today, pages 408-409

   According to anthropology professor Peter Rigby, the Maasai's resistance to Westernization and their reluctance to enter the market system is ethnosuicide.

   2005, Randall Elam Mayes, The Cybernetics of Kenyan Running: Hurry, Hurry Has No Blessing, page 92

   Synonyms: race suicide