Talk:Cultural genocide

Merge with Ethnocide

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The result of this discussion Oppose. HudecEmil (talk) 22:26, 9 August 2024 (UTC)

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I read this page and Ethnocide, and it seems that these concepts are extremely similar, or even identical. I guess it would be better to merge them. Probably into this page, since it has much more content and more incoming links from articles (1100 vs. 850). The merged page should probably explain the similarities and differences (if there are any) between the concepts.

A similar merge proposal was discussed in 2014/2015, but the discussion was archived without reaching a consensus, as far as I can tell. — Chrisahn (talk) 10:23, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

I found an even older merge discussion (2007-2010) which remained unresolved. Lack of consensus mentioned here. — Chrisahn (talk) 10:41, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

Disagree, since ethnicity and culture are not identical HudecEmil (talk) 19:10, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

Sure, but that's not the point. Please read the (attempted) definitions of Ethnocide and Cultural genocide. There appears to be no discernible difference. If you can find a difference in these definitions, please explain it. — Chrisahn (talk) 19:23, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

This source Hall, Thomas D., and James V. Fenelon. "The futures of indigenous peoples: 9-11 and the trajectory of indigenous survival and resistance." journal of world-systems research (2004): 153-197. argues a distinction between cultural genocide and ethnocide: a separate ethnic identity stays, but distinct culture eliminated. Also discussed in The SAGE Handbook of Nations and Nationalism "The term 'ethnocide' has in the past been used as a replacement for cultural genocide (Palmer 1992; Smith 1991:30-3), with the obvious risk of confusing ethnicity and culture." Though it seems to me both articles could be clearer on the distinction. HudecEmil (talk) 20:19, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

Oppose - Cultural Genocide is a real term used by academia to define the destruction of the cultural and religious beliefs of Indigenous people. "Kill the Indian, not the man" became a rallying cry for the assimilation of Indigenous people. By destroying their culture, their language, and removing them from the land their cultural beliefs were built upon the thought is they will be more readily converted to the colonialists views and assimilated into the colonialist society, those that survived the genocide attempts anyway. Later eugenics programs in the US would be classified as ethnocide as it was attempts to remove the Indigenous blood lines by sterilization of Indigenous women and the encouragement of mixed relations to purge the "Indian" blood. By merging it into ethnocide we will diminish the visibility of this distinct term. --ARoseWolf 13:02, 25 July 2024 (UTC)

• Oppose. Cultural genocide is a specific term which is especially used in Canada to describe the practice of the Canadian federal government and the Indian residential boarding schools. Yuchitown (talk) 14:18, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

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