Ethnocide
Extermination of a culture / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ethnocide is the extermination or destruction of ethnic identities.[1][2][3] Bartolomé Clavero differentiates ethnocide from genocide by stating that "Genocide kills people while ethnocide kills social cultures through the killing of individual souls".[4] According to Martin Shaw, ethnocide is a core part of physically violent genocide.[1] Some substitute cultural genocide for ethnocide,[5] and other argue the distinction between ethnicity and culture.[3] Cultural genocide and ethnocide have been used in different contexts.[6] 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.[7][8]