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auto-ethnocide

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

The destruction of an ethnic culture by its own members.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: rare, uncountable

Examples

  • 1981 May 22, Pierre L. van den Berghe, The Ethnic Phenomenon, page 163-164 (paperback 1987), Elsevier Social Science Of all the ethnic groups, castes are the only ones which, if given an opportunity, would commit “auto-ethnocide,” that is, which would gladly shed their separate identity and join the main body of the society whose culture they share.
  • 1993 September 1, James M. Freeman, Beyond the Killing Fields: Voices of Nine Cambodian Survivors in America, forward, page xiv, Usha Welaratna (author), Stanford University Press The author provides the cultural and historical background to enable the reader to comprehend the magnitude of this auto-ethnocide.

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History

Etymology

From auto- + ethnocide.