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genocide: the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group genocide - systematic killing of a racial or cultural group Kidn

• BadassFractal 8y ago
  The majority of Africans sold in slave trade were acquired and sold by other Africans, not kidnapped by people from Europe or the Middle East: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade If we want to call it genocide, it would be more likely genocide of one African tribe towards another. Note that this isn't to paint a picture of "look at these African savages killing each other", but only to highlight that historically members of the same ethnicity (at least the modern definition of "ethnicity") are rather eager to kill each other over resources (and moral differences to cover it up). Europeans, Asians, indigenous Americans etc were all quite successful in constant tribal warfare at various degrees of scale, there was nothing special about Africa here. In fact you could say that the Soviets were the most successful people in the history of the world at exterminating their own kind for one reason or another.
  • joewee 8y ago
    One Native American tribe killing another Native American tribe is still genocide. Africa is a continent, the slave trade was focused on nations / tribes within the continent. I think the appropriate application of ethnic group is applying it to the tribes / nations within the continent of Africa. Not the entire continent, which is made up of hundreds of ethnicities.