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- noun The
destruction of aculture .
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Examples
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- L'viv, 2001), 654 pp. [16] Explaining that he was combining "the ancient Greek word" genos "(race, tribe) and the Latin" cide "(killing)," he added in a footnote, "Another term could be used for the same idea, namely," ethnocide, "consisting of the Greek word 'ethnos'-nation-and the Latin word
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The group says it wrote the prince Friday to say he will be welcome in Quebec if he apologizes for "ethnocide" of francophones after New France passed into the hands of Britain in 1763.
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On the other hand, we have made far more serious efforts at ethnocide over the last century and a half, developed and used truly horrific weapons in two world wars, etc.
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Maybe if Reagan stopped giving them guns & money & protection, they might have slowed or stopped their ethnocide, but in this case U.S. foreign policy was quite clearly on the side of the would-be genocidalists.
Matthew Yglesias » The Trouble With Genocide Prevention 2008
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There's a word for what Arizona is attempting to do here: ethnocide.
Randall Amster: Arizona Bans Ethnic Studies and, Along With it, Reason and Justice Randall Amster 2010
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On the other hand, we have made far more serious efforts at ethnocide over the last century and a half, developed and used truly horrific weapons in two world wars, etc.
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While Iraq is in a state of lawless, Somalia-style anarchy today, it's also possible for it to turn into Rwanda levels of ethnocide.
Vilsack, The Anti-McCain, Favors Major Troop Withdrawal From Iraq 2009
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Tashka and his wife, Laura, have led the remote Yawanawa people in the Brazilian Amazon back from the brink of ethnocide.
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If you won't allow them to say 'This land is OURS', you license imperialism, and de-criminalise ethnocide.
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And that Islamic ideology drove and legitimated the Islamic ethnocide of Armenians at the turn of the century.
BLOODSHED TRILOGY 2006
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