identicide

English

Etymology

identity +‎ -cide

Noun

identicide

  1. (anthropology, sociology) The deliberate, systematic and targeted demoralization and destruction of the cultural elements representing the identity of a people, with the intent to erase the cultural narrative and memory of that people.

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