Cultural genocide

1966–1976 Maoist sociopolitical movement in China

1209 military campaigns against Catharism in southern France

genocide of as many as 3,000,000 Cambodians by communist Khmer Rogue in 1975–79

ongoing persecution of ethnic and religious minorities in northwestern China under Xi Jinping's administration

purposeful destruction of the culture and value system of an ethnic group

a term used for eastern parts of Turkey (formerly the Ottoman Empire) that were part of the historical homeland of Armenians.

Ethnocide is the extermination or destruction of ethnic identities. Bartolomé Clavero differentiates ethnocide from genocide by stating that "Genocide kills people while ethnocide kills social cultures through the killing of individual souls". According to Martin Shaw, ethnocide is a core part of physically violent genocide. Some substitute cultural genocide for ethnocide, and other argue the distinction between ethnicity and culture. Cultural genocide and ethnocide have been used in different contexts. While the terms "ethnocide" and "ethnic cleansing" are similar, the intentions of their use

violent transfer of children from the occupied lands of Ukraine to Russia during the Russian-Ukrainian war for the purpose of their Russification and genocide of the Ukrainian nation

residential school system

Russian propaganda article, published by RIA Novosti on April 3, 2022, and regarded as Ukrainophobic publication

In Occitan, vergonha (, ) refers to the effects of various language discriminatory policies of the government of France on its minority or regional languages, (including Romance languages such as Occitan and Catalan, as well as non-Romance languages such as Alsatian and Basque), deemed patois, as opposed to standard French Vergonha is imagined as a process of "being made to reject and feel ashamed of one's (or one's parents') mother tongue through official exclusion, humiliation at school and rejection from the media", as organized and sanctioned by French political leaders from Henri Grégoire

residential schools established to assimilate Native American children into a white American society

internalized attitude of ethnic, national or cultural inferiority

involuntary cultural assimilation of minority groups

Culture during the Nazi cultural genocide of 1939–1944

was a policy of pressuring Koreans under Japanese rule to adopt Japanese names and identify as such. The primary reason for the policy was to forcibly assimilate Koreans, as was done with the Ainu and the Ryukyuans. The has been deemed by historians as one of the many aspects of cultural genocide that the Japanese attempted to impose on their non-Japanese territories.

Swiss project to remove Yenish children from their families

policy of destroying the Tibetan indigenous culture and replacing it with the Han colonial one

Nazi plan for Germanification of Bohemia and Moravia

policy of a state

monuments destroyed or damaged in Gaza

thumb|A Sámi family in , around 1900. Photochrom|Fotokromtrykk.

thumb|A Buddhist temple built by Korean Jaegaseung minority thumb|An example of oatmeal paper traditionally produced by Jaegaseung minority in Korea

genocide of Brazilian indigenous peoples following the Portuguese colonization