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Old 06-24-09, 04:50 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl View Post
I suppose a case could be made for the idea that the U.S. is assimilating or absorbing native American culture, that is what we do with every culture, but that's a far cry from genocide. It isn't as if we systematically execute native Americans, you know.
Not in the present, but in the past there has been the effort of mass executions indeed.

However, the definition of genocide according to the UN Anti Genocide Convention goes beyond mass executioning a people, and also mentions the systematic effort to destroy a culture, or to make it's survivability and it's handing over to the next generation impossible.
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