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Cultural Genocide (Paperback, New)
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Cultural Genocide (Paperback, New)
Series: Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights
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Most scholars of genocide focus on mass murder. Lawrence Davidson,
by contrast, explores the murder of culture. He suggests that when
people have limited knowledge of the culture outside of their own
group, they are unable to accurately assess the alleged threat of
others around them. Throughout history, dominant populations have
often dealt with these fears through mass murder. However, the
shock of the Holocaust now deters today's great powers from the
practice of physical genocide. Majority populations, cognizant of
outside pressure and knowing that they should not resort to mass
murder, have turned instead to cultural genocide as a "second best"
politically determined substitute for physical genocide. In
Cultural Genocide, this theory is applied to events in four
settings, two events that preceded the Holocaust and two events
that followed it: the destruction of American Indians by uninformed
settlers who viewed these natives as inferior and were more intent
on removing them from the frontier than annihilating them; the
attack on the culture of Eastern European Jews living within
Russian-controlled areas before the Holocaust; the Israeli attack
on Palestinian culture; and the absorption of Tibet by the People's
Republic of China. In conclusion, Davidson examines the mechanisms
that may be used to combat today's cultural genocide as well as the
contemporary social and political forces at work that must be
overcome in the process.
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