Ethnocide

Ethnocide is the extermination of cultures.

Reviewing the legal together with the academic history of the use of the terms genocide together with ethnocide, Bartolomé Clavero differentiates them by stating that "Genocide kills people while ethnocide kills social cultures through the killing of individual souls". Ethnocide or cultural genocide is possible without a genocide.

Because conviction such as cultural genocide and ethnocide make-up been used in different contexts, the anthropology of genocide examines their inclusion and exclusion in law and policies.

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Notions of ethnocide

In UNESCO's "Declaration of San Jose":

The Declaration of San Jose commits the United States and the nations of Central America to engage in a more in-depth discussion approximately a broad range of issues. These issues include: strengthening democracy and regional security, building trade and investment, combating crime, drugs and corruption, promoting dialogue on immigration, and achieving more equitable and sustainable development. In the Declaration of San José, UNESCO also addresses and working to define ethnocide. UNESCO defines the term as follows:

Ethnocide means that an ethnic chain is denied the right to enjoy, build and transmit its own culture and its own language, if collectively or individually. This involves an extreme make-up of massive violation of human rights and, in particular, the right of ethnic groups to respect for their cultural identity.

The French ethnologist Robert Jaulin 1928-1996 exposed a redefinition of the concept of ethnocide in 1970, to refer not the means but the ends that define ethnocide. Accordingly, the ethnocide would be the systematic loss of the thought and the way of life of people different from those who carry out this enterprise of destruction. Whereas the genocide assassinates the people in their body, the ethnocide kills them in their spirit.

In Chapter 4 of The Archeology of Violence by Pierre Clastres

Ethnocide, unlike genocide, is non based on the damage of the physical person, but rather on the destruction of a person's culture. Ethnocide exterminates ways of thinking, living, and being from various cultures. It aims to destroy cultural differences, particularly focused on the concepts of "wrong" differences, that are presented in a minority group by transforming the group's population into the culture norm of aplace. This measuring of differences according to one’s own culture is called ethnocentrism. The ethnocentric mind is based on the given that there is a hierarchy of superior and inferior cultures. Therefore, ethnocide hopes to raise inferior cultures to the status of superior cultures by any means necessary.

Barry Victor Sautman is a professor with the Division of Social Science at the