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In a cultural genocide (or culturicide), one group of people attempts to destroy the culture and identity of another group.
A Polish-Jewish lawyer named Raphael Lemkin created the terms "genocide" and "cultural genocide" in 1944.[1][2] He argued that destroying culture is a major part of genocide.[1]
Definition
[change | change source]The precise definition of cultural genocide is still debated. The drafters of the 1948 Genocide Convention initially considered using the term, but later dropped it from inclusion.
Cultural genocide, by itself, does not meet the United Nations' definition of genocide.[3] This definition requires proof that perpetrators "intended to physically destroy a national, ethnic, racial or religious group. Cultural destruction does not suffice[.]"[4]
The Armenian Genocide Museum defines cultural genocide as "acts and measures undertaken to destroy nations' or ethnic groups' culture through spiritual, national, and cultural destruction".[5] In this definition, cultural genocide is essentially the same as ethnocide (trying to destroy an entire ethnic group).[5]
References
[change | change source]- 1 2 Lemkin, Raphael (1944). Axis Rule in Occupied Europe: Laws of Occupation, Analysis of Government, and Proposals for Redress. Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
- ↑ "Cultural Genocide and the Protection of Cultural Heritage". www.getty.edu. Retrieved 2025-09-17.
- ↑ "The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)" (PDF). UN Office on Genocide Prevention & the Responsibility to Protect. Retrieved 2025-09-16.
- ↑ United Nations. "Definitions of Genocide and Related Crimes". www.un.org. Retrieved 2024-09-22.
- 1 2 "Genocide Museum | The Armenian Genocide Museum-institute". genocide-museum.am. Retrieved 2025-09-17.