cultural genocide

Cultural genocide is a term used to describe the deliberate destruction of the cultural heritage of a people or nation for political, military, religious, ideological, ethnical, or racial reasons.

Usually this is an attempt by the government to suppress the people of any nation into believing their distorted history.
Tearing down that historical building was cultural genocide and the government is covering up.
by Mr. Robotron March 14, 2019
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cultural assailant

A person in a position of authority who gains traction through self-aggrandizement and power-grabbing who concurrently attempts to rip apart the progress achieved in the fabric of that culture.
America has elected a most pernicious and destructive cultural assailant.
by Dr Bunnygirl July 22, 2019
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Cultural Suicide

When people totally neglect their own culture and imitate another culture. many people think that globalization has caused young people to culturally-suicide.
cultural suicide is most likely to occur when a teenager is being intensively exposed to different culture
by mado Dolce December 22, 2010
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Dominator Culture

A model of culture and human relations based on hierarchy, ranking, power, and control. Masculinity is equated with control, conquest, and violence: men dominating women and children.

Opposite to Partnership Culture.

In a domination system...

Humans are flawed and dangerous.

Difference is equated with superiority or inferiority.

Power is used to control and destroy through hierarchies of domination.

Competition means "dog eat dog"; "every man for himself".

People cooperate to dominate others.

Huge gaps between haves and have-nots

Nature is a resource to be dominated, depleted and polluted.

Morality of insensitivity, control, and coercion.

(Based on the Center for Partnership Studies' summary of points from Riane Eisler's _The Power of Partnership_ and David Korten's _The Great Turning_)
Dominator culture teaches all of us that the core of our identity is defined by the will to dominate and control others. We are taught that this will to dominate is more biologically hardwired in males than in females. In actuality, dominator culture teaches us that we are all natural-born killers but that males are more able to realize the predator role. In the dominator model the pursuit of external power, the ability to manipulate and control others, is what matters most. When culture is based on a dominator model, not only will it be violent but it will frame all relationships as power struggles.
(bell hooks)
by Grinning Cat March 28, 2013
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cultural appropriation

A way for people, normally white girls from LA, on twitter to take offense for another culture while people from the actual culture normally really don’t give a shit.
Person: My lNative American step-mother used to hang dream catchers on our walls, but she passed away. Is it still appropriate for me to keep it?
Ruby Richardson: Is she from the Ojibwe tribe? Have you studied the history of the Ojibwe people and the dream catcher? If not then it’s not meant for you and it’s cultural appropriation and I don’t care that it was a gift from your deceased stepmother.
by The Baconspiracy June 10, 2020
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Cancel Culture

the act of damaging someone's life or career because they made human error.
little timmy said something offensive on accident and now cancel culture made him homeless.
by astronomia November 21, 2020
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beanie culture

A slang reference to the common thread among Millennials, that ubiquitous knitted cap.
Beanie culture clearly conveys the laid-back anti-consumerism that defines this generation, rain or shine.
by Dr Bunnygirl April 6, 2019
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