culturicide

Noun

culturicide (countable and uncountable, plural culturicides)

1. (uncountable) The systematic destruction of a culture, particularly one unique to a specific ethnicity, or a political, religious, or social group.
   • If culturicide is to be prevented, certain means must be employed.1969, New Physician, volume 18, Reston, Va.: American Medical Student Association, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 617
   • In effect, the textbooks commit what we term culturecide: the destruction of a culture, either by physical force or through symbolic means. The textbooks contribute to such destruction by distorting and omitting information […]1974, George Dearborn Spindler, editor, Education and Cultural Process: Toward an Anthropology of Education, New York, N.Y.; London: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →ISBN, page 529
2. (countable) An instance of such destruction.
   • Our mission is not only to stop the "culturecides" initiated by us, but also to recognize the treasures of experience, wisdom, and subtlety in the cultures we are annihilating.2003, Edgar Morin, “European Civilization: Properties and Challenges”, in Mehdi Mozaffari, editor, Globalization and Civilizations, London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 145
   • Now, the teacher needs to place these historical situations into broader social contexts. Therefore, I provide a chart of some historical genocides and culturicides as an example, allowing instructors to also model how just because there is a genocide or culturicide, there are other modes of...2006, Ismael Abu-Saad, Duane Champagne, editors, Indigenous Education and Empowerment: International Perspectives, Lanham, Md.: AltaMira Press, →ISBN, page 68