# How is genocide defined, with an emphasis on cultural genocide?

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**Created:** [June 13, 2021, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-genocide-defined-with-an-emphasis-on-cultural-genocide/944198 "2021-06-13T23:23:25Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 14, 2021, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-genocide-defined-with-an-emphasis-on-cultural-genocide/944198/12 "2021-06-14T07:05:17Z")

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> [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](#):
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> numbers do seem to matter

I’ll repeat what I said in the other thread:

> [@I pit DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1008):
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> > [@I pit DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/980):
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> > Should genocide have numbers?
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> Fuck, no. If someone went and killed all, what, 200, Sentinelese, _that_ would be still be genocide.
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> If they _just_ rounded them all up, took them to the mainland and made them wear Indian clothes and speak only Hindi, that would _also_ still be genocide.

> [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](#):
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> I haven’t heard the term attempted genocide, although maybe it exists.

A failed genocide is still a genocide. We don’t call it the Rwandan _Attempt_, or the _Almost_-Shoah, or the Kampuchean No-Cigar-Fields.

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