In genocide Many of the
genocides practiced throughout history were based on
ethnic supremacy. Ethnic supremacy is assumed by one group within a culture, following some distinct action by an external group or from one of the ethnic groups. With European intervention in places like
Rwanda, social institutions worked to socially construct an ethnic inferiority, distinguishing the
Hutus and
Tutsis from one another and causing what would be one of the most horrific demonstrations of genocide in modern history. A similar example to that of the
Rwandan genocide was the ongoing civil war in
Burma. The civil war spanned from a constitution that granted Burma their independence from the
British Empire in which a group of leaders created conditions that did not involve many of
Burma's ethnic minorities, and instigated a fight from them. Many of these
ethnic minorities in Burma, including the
Karen, have been significantly displaced by the military junta and placed into refugee camps in bordering nations. The remaining ethnic minorities have been living in poor conditions, and have been met by a variety of human rights abuses.
Globalization Globalization involves the free movement of goods, capital, services, people, technology and information throughout the world. It also involves the international integration of potentially very different countries through the adoption of the same or similar
worldviews,
ideologies, and other aspects of culture. American academic
Anthony J. Marsella argues that this is monoculturalism on a grand scale. Potentially it could lead to the suppression and loss of different ethnic cultures on a global scale. == See also ==