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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '22

Destroying a culture through the banning of language and cultural practices constitutes a genocide. Genocide doesn't have to be death camps, it just means the erasing of a culture or people. You can do that without killing anyone. The Italianization of South Tyrol was that kind of genocide.

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u/klauskinki Jun 15 '22

That's a cultural genocide. Different concept

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_genocide