Ethnocide

Throughout history, there have been examples of ethnocide, some are mentioned in the reader. First, mosques, a library in Sarajevo, and other Muslim cultural symbols were destroyed by the Serbians. This was used to show how the Serbians aspired to eliminate the Bosnian Muslims. This is an example of ethnocide because Serbians are destroying such sacred cultural items. Without their cultural architecture and symbols, they are suppressed. Another example is in the case of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin

Why do governments participate in ethnocide and how can removing one’s cultural identity harm society as a whole? The use of subjugation as a first world government says that peace is not fully possible within that society. Institutionalized racism in Canada has been a hot topic recently due to the presence and organized events of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, raising awareness for the 150,000 aboriginal Canadians who were forced into enrolling in “residential schools” that removed

inhumane boarding schools and oppressing laws that inhibited those of a different culture from being themselves and partook in the urbanization of cultured communities. The following practices need to be stopped and never forgotten so that such ethnocide doesn't happen again. Boarding schools were an issue that plagued both Native Americans and Inupiats. As conveyed by the writings of Mary Crow Dog and other Native American figures, we see how the effects of such schools were devastating to the

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Americas. Colonialism in North America differed vastly in comparison to other contexts in the role to which not only European states involved themselves imperialistically, but also in the role to which they attempted to assimilate, educate and ethnocide the spiritual, religious and culture of the people it was colonizing, all at the same time. While the force of colonialism isn’t anything new in the historical evolution of mankind, the mannerism to which the white European colonized North America

With El Salvador's different political world wind in prior years, a man by the name of Farabundo Martí who was a social activist and revolutionary leader, had helped find the Communist Party of Central America, and he had led them to the International Red Aid. Their goal was to help the poor and underprivileged Salvadorans through socialism and then communism. Eventually a few leaders had developed and formed a guerrilla revolution of indigenous farmers. In 1932 the government retaliated by killing

The death and burials of the Cherokee along the Trail of Tears, will determine if the forced relocation can be considered an act of genocide. However, determining the number of how many people lost their lives on the Trail of Tears is difficult to calculate. An exact death toll of the round-up alone cannot be verified by historians. Most modern historians and other professionals agree on the number 4,000 deaths or one-fourth of the Cherokee Nation (Thornton, 1984). 4,000 deaths, is an estimate determined

Residential schools were a normal aspect of Aboriginal people’s lives in the 19th and 20th century. The purpose of a residential school was to convert Aboriginal children to Christianity and to assimilate them into Western culture. They were operated through the Canadian government and the church. Aboriginal children were forcibly taken from their parents and put into a school, full-time. They were mistreated which led to problems that still afflict the Aboriginal population of Canada today. Many

In Western history the term “civilization” has often been equated with “progress” which is absurd because both terms are subjective to the individual or a group. Europeans created the word civilization which means they also set the standards for what qualifies as civilized and the rest of the world follow. According to Raymond Williams, "Civilization", “`in modern English civilization still refers to a general condition or state, and is still contrasted with savagery or barbarism”, this quote brought

As anthropologist Bruce Knauft described, the Gebusi clan had words that described many different aspects, examples included oil the Gebusi word for tomorrow and yesterday and owa for grandparents and grandchildren, but the most defining one was kogwayay, a catchfall marker to describe all of their cultural distinction. Because of kogwayay’s branching terminology, kogwayay is also the Gebusi’s word for ethnicity, the identification with a cultural group because of shared values customs and beliefs