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

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> [@k9bfriender](#):
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> You may have different levels of genocide, some involving millions, some involving “mere” thousands, but it is the intent of those trying to eradicate the targeted people that matters.

I don’t know much about the subject, but numbers do seem to matter, based just on what is described in the news. For example, if a group of Aryan Nation people kills one African American, that’s not usually called a genocide. I haven’t heard the term attempted genocide, although maybe it exists. The intent is there. If that’s the case, then most hate crimes are also genocides.

I’ll paste **What\_Exit?**'s question here.

> [@I pit DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/980):
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> If so do the number come up to what is general regarded as genocide? Should genocide have numbers?

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