white genocide

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Etymology 1

Noun

white genocide (countable and uncountable, plural white genocides)

  1. (white supremacy) A supposed plot to eliminate the white race using a variety of means including, but not limited to, miscegenation, immigration, assimilation, multiculturalism and violence.[1][2]
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Etymology 2

Partial calque of Armenian սպիտակ եղեռն (spitak eġeṙn), literally "white Yeghern", and/or various similar terms like ճերմակ ջարդ (čermak ǰard, “white massacre”).[3]

Noun

white genocide (uncountable)

  1. The supposed elimination of Armenian identity (culturicide), particularly among diasporic Armenians, through assimilation to other cultures and languages.
    • 2016 April 4, Alexis Demirdjian, The Armenian Genocide Legacy, Springer, →ISBN, page 266:
      If identity is placed in the body it is also open to manipulation and impurification, especially in Diaspora communities where younger Armenians come into contact with non-Armenians. This enhances fears that Armenian identity will slowly disappear through a process of 'white genocide', and in turn results in the belief that Armenian Diaspora communities are in danger.
    • 2018 October 8, Vahagn Avedian, Knowledge and Acknowledgement in the Politics of Memory of the Armenian Genocide, Routledge, →ISBN:
      Besides the activities directly related to the recognition process, the genocide has also, as an omnipresent factor, indirectly loaded many diaspora Armenians with considerable overhead activity in their daily life: the [...] Armenian Sunday schools we had to attend while our Swedish classmates were enjoying the weekends, and the constant concern about the new generation's loss of its Armenian identity through assimilation, the “white genocide.” Yet […]

References

  1. ^ ADL - White Genocide
  2. ^ The Conversation: White Genocide explained
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    2021 September 23, Vartan Matiossian, The Politics of Naming the Armenian Genocide: Language, History and ‘Medz Yeghern’, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 81:
    ... The concept of jermag chart, literally translated as “white massacre” and traditionally applied in the Diaspora to the perceived threat of cultural assimilation to the host societies and loss of Armenian identity, evolved to the non-literal translation "white genocide" by the late 1970s. In the case of Armenia, it was rebranded as sbidag yeghern and applied to the condemnation of the retreat in the use of the Armenian language and  […]
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