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Meaning of white genocide | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. A conspiracy theory claiming the existence of a plot to eliminate white people using a variety of means including, but not limited to, miscegenation, immigration, assimilation, multiculturalism and violence.
    countable, uncountable
  2. The supposed elimination of Armenian identity (culturicide), particularly among diasporic Armenians, through assimilation to other cultures and languages.
    uncountable

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Examples

“If identity is placed in the body it is also open to manipulation and impurification, especially in Diaspora communities where younger Armenians come into contact with non-Armenians. This enhances fears that Armenian identity will slowly disappear through a process of 'white genocide', and in turn results in the belief that Armenian Diaspora communities are in danger.”
“Besides the activities directly related to the recognition process, the genocide has also, as an omnipresent factor, indirectly loaded many diaspora Armenians with considerable overhead activity in their daily life: the [...] Armenian Sunday schools we had to attend while our Swedish classmates were enjoying the weekends, and the constant concern about the new generation's loss of its Armenian identity through assimilation, the “white genocide.” Yet[…]”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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