Ethnic disintegration

The falling apart or destruction of ethnic culture may result from cultural invasion, compulsory education, and other national policies which do not take ethnic considerations into account.

Ethnic disintegration is particularly marked among primitive tribes, but can also be seen among sects and ideological communities in industrialized countries (such as Jewish Americans) with their increasing nationalism and uniform national social policies.

1. We can assert with some confidence that our period is one of decline; and that the standards of culture are lower than they were fifty years ago; and that the evidences of this decline are visible in every department of human activities (T. S. Eliot).

1. Social breakdown
2. Disintegration
3. Collapse

1. Loss of linguistic tradition
2. Lack of unity of Jewish people
3. Lack of racial identity
4. Gypsy ethnic disintegration
5. Ethnocide
6. Cultural suicide
7. Breakdown of tribal structure

1. Erosion of cultural identity
2. Cultural revolution

1. Unadapted significance of cultural tradition
2. Religious conflict
3. Rapidly changing cultures
4. Ill-considered missionary activity
5. Forced assimilation
6. Cultural stagnation
7. Cultural invasion
8. Cultural illiteracy
9. Cultural deprivation
10. Cultural corruption
11. Abuse of native peoples

1. Primitive secret societies
2. Ethnic segregation

1. Traditionalism

1. Threatened sects
2. Obsolete basis of cultural identity
3. National political disintegration
4. National disintegration
5. Disproportionate ethnic population growth

1. Reversing cultural decline
2. Reducing ethnic disintegration
3. Reappropriating ancient tribal origins
4. Protecting human rights
5. Monitoring cultural decline

1. Disintegration
2. Decline
3. Collapse