ethnosuicide
ethnosuicide noun: the destruction of an ethnic identity by members of that ethnicity.
Noun
ethnosuicide (plural ethnosuicides)
- The destruction of an ethnic identity by members of that ethnicity.
- 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
Synonyms of ethnosuicide
Forms of ethnosuicide
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Origin of ethnosuicide
From ethno- + suicide.
Questions about ethnosuicide
- What does ethnosuicide mean?
- Ethnosuicide means the destruction of an ethnic identity by members of that ethnicity.
- What part of speech is ethnosuicide?
- Ethnosuicide is a noun.
- What is the plural of ethnosuicide?
- The plural of ethnosuicide is ethnosuicides.
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