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White Genocide (Template:Lang-hy) is the term used by Armenians use to describe assimilation in the West. Armenians were forcibly deported and massacred from their historical homelands during the Armenian Genocide in 1915-1923.

Western Armenians consider Armenians who assimilate within the local population of the country where they were eventually forced to emigrate (such as United States, France, Argentina, Canada etc.) as lost to their nation due to the continuing exile after the actual genocide itself, and thus consider that lost Armenian to be another victim of the genocidal attempt to eliminate the Armenians. The term "White Genocide" was also used for northwestern Azerbaijan and Nakhijevan where Armenians were forcibly deported and cleansed from the regions.

The Diaspora is referred to by many in Armenia and in the diaspora as the "white genocide". As one of my informants said, “What the Turks did not do, we are doing to ourselves by fleeing the homeland.”

Assimilation of Armenians in the Western world

United States

According to the 2000 United States Census there were 385,488 ethnic Armenians living in the United States. But only 202,708 (52.6%) of them referred Armenian as 'Language Spoken at Home'.

Throughout the diaspora, Armenians have developed a pattern of quick acculturation and slow assimilation. Armenians quickly acculturate to their society, learning the language, attending school, and adapting to economic and political life. Meanwhile, they are highly resistant to assimilation, maintaining their own schools, churches, associations, language, and networks of intramarriage and friendship. Sociologist Anny Bakalian observes that across generations, U.S. Armenians move from a more central "being Armenian" to a more surface "feeling Armenian," expressing nostalgic pride in their heritage while acting fully American.

Today's U.S. Armenian community is bound together by a network of Armenian groups including, for example, some 170 church congregations, 33 day schools, 20 national newspapers, 36 radio or television programs, 58 student scholarship programs, and 26 professional associations. Anthropologist Margaret Mead suggested that over the centuries, diaspora Armenians (like Jews) have developed a tight-knit family structure to serve as a bulwark against extinction and assimilation.

Canada

According to the Canada 2001 Census there were 40,505 Armenians in Canada, while 13,330 (32.9%) were multiple responses, meaning only one of their parents was Armenian. Although only 15,150 people (37.4% of the total Armenian population) spoke Armenian language as their native. Armenian Canadian professor Taline Chichekian finds that linguistic assimilation of Armenians in Canada depends first, on size of the ethnic community, second, on institutional completness. Thus, Montreal and Toronto have the highest linguistic relention rates in Canada.

France

According to French National Institute of Demographic Studies (INED) there were 4,778 people that were born in the Republic of Armenia (data of 1999). Armenian diaspora organization estimate that up to 400,000 ethnic Armenians live in France. The reason of the difference of the number of Armenian-born and ethnic Armenians is that many Armenians were born in Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Romania, etc., but not in the Republic of Armenia. Because official French statistics don't give any data about the ethnicity or native language, it is so hard to estimate the assimilation rate of French Armenians.

Education

There are twelve Armenian-lnaguage or bilingual (French and Armenian) schools in France: 8 elementary, 2 intermediate and 2 high schools.

Genocide of Whites in the Western World From Massive Third World Immigration and Forced Assimilation

U.N. Convention

Article 2, Part (c) of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide from 1948 defines genocide as: (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group CONDITIONS OF LIFE calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.

Anti-racism as Cause of White Genocide

Laws influenced by anti-racism in all Western nations are such that Whites are not allowed anywhere exclusive for their race. Laws enforce conditions of mass immigration, inter-mingling, and tolerance, which assures assimilation that eliminates the White race. Anti-racism is an ideology gripping the West that enforces and intends this White Genocide. Anti-racist Harvard Professor Noel Ignatiev has said, "Make no mistake about it: we intend to keep bashing the dead white males, and the live ones, and the females too, until the social construct known as ‘the white race’ is destroyed—not ‘deconstructed’ but destroyed."

Pew Statistics on Muslim Immigration

"The number of Muslims in Europe has grown from 29.6 million in 1990 to 44.1 million in 2010.34 Europe’s Muslim population is projected to exceed 58 million by 2030. Muslims today account for about 6% of Europe’s total population, up from 4.1% in 1990. By 2030, Muslims are expected to make up 8% of Europe’s population."

See also

• Armenian Genocide
• Armenian Genocide survivors
• Silent Holocaust - equivalent term for loss of Jews through assimilation

References

1. Israel Charny, Encyclopedia of Genocide
2. The post-Soviet wars: rebellion, ethnic conflict, and nationhood in the Caucasus By Christoph Zürcher - p.156
3. Neil J. Melvin, Charles King, Nations Abroad: diaspora politics and international relations in the Former Soviet Union, p.96
4. Donald Eugene Miller, Lorna Touryan Miller, Survivors: An Oral History Of The Armenian Genocide, p. 166
5. Waltraud Kokot, Diaspora, Identity and Religion: new directions in theory and research, p. 72
6. Mark Malkasian, Gha-ra-bagh!: the emergence of the national democratic movement in Armenia, p. 56
7. Stuart J. Kaufman, Modern Hatreds: The Symbolic Politics of Ethnic War, p. 55
8. James Sperling, S. Victor Papacosma, Limiting Institutions?: the challenge of Eurasian security governance, p. 51
9. George E. Marcus, Perilous States: conversations on culture, politics, and nation, p. 109
10. Armine Ishkhanyan, Between Tragedy And Reality: Armenian Women’s Labor Migration In the Post-soviet Period
11. United States 2000 census: Ancestry
12. United States 2000 census: Language Spoken at Home
13. Culture and Commitment, New York, Columbia University Press, 1978
14. Multicultural America::ARMENIAN AMERICANS: ACCULTURATION AND ASSIMILATION
15. ^ Canada 2001 Census: Ethnic Origin
16. Canada 2001 Census: Language Use at Work
17. Anny P. Bakalian, Armenian-Americans: from being to feeling Armenian, p. 85, Transaction Publishers, 1993
18. Institut national d'études démographiques: Immigrés selon le pays de naissance en 1999
19. ArmenianDiaspora.com - ARMENIAN POPULATION IN THE WORLD
20. "U.N. Convention on Genocide". United Nations. Retrieved February 5, 2013.
21. "Abolish the White Race". Harvard Magazine. Retrieved February 5, 2013.
22. "Pew Research Center". Pew Research Center. Retrieved February 5, 2013.

• Armenian Genocide
• Armenian diaspora