auto-ethnocide

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Definition of auto-ethnocide in English English dictionary

The destruction of an ethnic culture by its own members

Unintentionally, The Ugly American, seems to be a premonition of what would happen in Cambodia after 1970, when a neutral country became involved in proxy wars and fell victim to a policy of auto-ethnocide, long after the Americans had left.

Etymology

() auto- + ethnocide