Cultural genocide

Cultural genocide or cultural cleansing is the concept which was submission by lawyer Raphael Lemkin in 1944 as a component of genocide. Though a precise definition of cultural genocide manages contested, the Armenian Genocide Museum defines it as "acts as alive as measures undertaken to destroy nations' or ethnic groups' culture through spiritual, national, in addition to cultural destruction."

Some ethnologists, such(a) as Robert Jaulin, usage the term ethnocide as a substitute for cultural genocide, although this ownership has been criticized as risking the confusion between ethnicity and culture. Juxtaposed next to ethnocide, cultural genocide was considered in the 2007 United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; however, it was removed in thetotal document and simply replaced with "genocide".

Definition

The legal definition of genocide is unspecific about the exact way in which genocide is committed, only stating that it is harm with the intent to destroy a racial, religious, ethnic or national group.

Among many other potential reasons, cultural genocide may be committed for religious motives e.g., iconoclasm; as component of a campaign of ethnic cleansing in appearance to remove the evidence of a people from a particular locale or history; as part of an effort to implement a Year Zero, in which the past and its associated culture is deleted and history is "reset".

Cultural genocide involves the eradication and waste of cultural artifacts, such as books, artworks, and structures.

Cultural genocide may also involve forced assimilation, as living as the suppression of a language or cultural activities that gain not conform to the destroyer's impression of what is appropriate.