culturacide

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English

Etymology

From Latin cultūra +‎ -cide.[1]

Noun

culturacide (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of culturicide.
    • 1996, Aleksandar Aco Ravlić, editor, Međunarodni znanstveni skup “Jugoistočna Europa 1918.-1995.”, volume 2, Croatian Heritage Foundation; Croatian Information Centre, →ISBN, page 35, column 2:
      They began immediately with the destruction of Turkish Mosques and all other Islamic monuments throughout the entire 19th century. With this ethnicide and culturacide, they entirely erased every Turkish and Islamic trace in Serbia.
    • 2009 October 7, Tim Walz, quotee, Human Rights and the Rule of Law in China: Hearing Before the Congressional-Executive Commission of China, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, First Session, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, published 2010, page 20:
      Being in Tibet and in Urumqi in the 1990s—I was in Urumqi six, seven years ago—how different is it today, in your opinion? What I saw was not just modernization. I saw the cultural shift, or the culturacide, if you may, in both places.
    • 2012, Christine Lalonde, quoting Vision, Space, Desire: Global Perspectives and Cultural Hybridity, “The Insight of Continuity: Elisapee Ishulutag and Gavavau Manumie”, in Jonathan Shaughnessy, editor, Builders: Canadian Biennial 2012, National Gallery of Canada, →ISBN, page 29:
      As Jolene Rickard observes, Indigenous artists “have densely packed cultural survival kits that transfer knowledge from one generation to the next, despite unremitting attempts at genocide, culturacide, and other forms of political and philosophical erasure. []
    • 2016, “Mission Y2K?”, in John Jota Leaños, archived from the original on 2016-10-14:
      It was through research into these empty spaces and untold stories of the district’s forgotten histories that we were able to recognize tendencies of genocide, “culturacide,” removal and resistance to these forces that span from the 17th century until the present.
    • 2022, Wong May, In the Same Light: 200 Tang Poems for Our Century, Carcanet Poetry, →ISBN, section 44:
      In 213 BC, Qin Shih Huang lit China’s first bonfire of books, followed by a live-burial of writers, (Zhang Jie, p179), barely a year after the following proscription: [] This proscription is still being posted in some language on Earth. Some Dear Leader, natural culturacide, will take heart.

References

  1. ^ P.-J. Ezeh (2023) “Meanings of BB: The Social Semantics of a Nigerian Reality Show”, in Christopher Isike, Olusola Ogunnubi, Ogochukwu Ukwueze, editors, Big Brother Naija and Popular Culture in Nigeria: A Critique of the Country’s Cultural and Economic Diplomacy, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, part I (Concept, Form and Context), page 36:For the attitude of the BBNaija actors/actresses, vis-à-vis the indigenous cultures, one may suggest the term culturacide (from Latin: cultura, culture; and ~ cide, the usual English suffix denoting “kill”, which also comes from Latin: caedere, to kill).