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prettygoodwordethnocide (ETH-noh-seyed) - n., the destruction of a culture.
As opposed to genocide, the destruction of a people. Although originally coined by Raphael Lemkin, the coiner of genocide, as an alternative form of that, it is generally taken to be a synonym for what had been called cultural genocide. After ethnocide, the people who practiced that culture may still be alive, but living with different practices. (Note that both words are putting a Latin suffix on a Greek root: genos, a race/tribe, and ethnos, a nation.)
---L.
As opposed to genocide, the destruction of a people. Although originally coined by Raphael Lemkin, the coiner of genocide, as an alternative form of that, it is generally taken to be a synonym for what had been called cultural genocide. After ethnocide, the people who practiced that culture may still be alive, but living with different practices. (Note that both words are putting a Latin suffix on a Greek root: genos, a race/tribe, and ethnos, a nation.)
---L.
