ethnosuicide
nounEtymology
From ethno- + suicide.
Definitions
The destruction of an ethnic identity by members of that ethnicity.
- R. M. Boyer has postulated that a societal safeguard against ethnosuicide is to be found in the widespread dependent tendencies combined with retention of individual rights of decision-making.
- According to anthropology professor Peter Rigby, the Maasai's resistance to Westernization and their reluctance to enter the market system is ethnosuicide.
- The call to commit ethnosuicide is perplexing, for it led the Nahuas to wonder why they were asked to destroy their culture and selves [...]
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA