culturicide
/kʌlˈt͡ʃʊəɹɪˌsaɪd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The systematic destruction of a culture, particularly one unique to a specific ethnicity, or a political, religious, or social group.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "If culturicide is to be prevented, certain means must be employed."
- "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 […]"
- "When culture-groups, in majority or minority, in national or political systems, attempt to eliminate the social practices of other culture-groups over which they have power, there is cultural domination and hypothesized Culturicide. Culturicide examples include Germans stamping out Hebrew language of Jews in the 1930s, Spanish outlawing Aztec and Maya codexes in 16th century Central America, Chinese establishing provincial restrictions of Mandarin in various dynasties, and the United States suppressing native languages of our indigenous "Indian" nations for over one hundred years."
- "Though culturecide is in and of itself not genocide, it does threaten the existence of a group if individual actions assume a quantitative mass whose collective impact can result in the demise of a group."
- "In contrast, culturicide is an attempt to kill a culture, whether or not its members survive and whether or not they retain a separate identity […]"
- "Culturecide, referred to also as cultural genocide or deculturation, signifies processes that have usually been purposely introduced and that result in the decline or demise of a culture, without necessarily resulting in the physical destruction of its bearers."
Etymology
From culture + -icide.
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /kʌlˈt͡ʃʊəɹɪˌsaɪd/