culturocide

English

Alternative forms

• culturcide, culturecide, culturicide

Etymology

culture +‎ -o- +‎ -cide

Noun

culturocide (countable and uncountable, plural culturocides)

1. The deliberate destruction of a culture.
   • 1964, Judaism - Volume 13, page 95:

     And this too, I thought, was part of the Soviet culturocide— that Jewish philosophical thought is kept stunted, arrested, medievalized, for lack of the opportunity to receive a single independent Jewish book or magazine from abroad.

   • 2005, T K Oommen, Crisis and Contention in Indian Society, →ISBN, page 110:

     That is, there are two inevitable consequences in establishing a religion-based nation: genocide and/or culturocide, that is, a systematic liquidation of cultures.

   • 2013, Ishwar modi, Readings in Indian Sociology: Volume X: Pioneers of Sociology in India, →ISBN:

     But in the case of the New World—Americas and Australia—the Europeans settled down and replicated their societies and marginalised the natives (aborigines) through genocide and culturocide.