Quote Originally Posted by LegioXXXUlpiaVictrix
In most cases a conquest has led to the conquered becoming a part of the people, not that they've all been massacred.
Genocide is the attempt to destroy a given group 'as such.' Assimilating survivors into the conquering people is often a part of destroying the previous culture, and is an element of genocide, not a counterexample to it.

I very much agree with the second half of Louis' post that genocides have been a major element of much of human history, and I think the perpetrators have more often than not gotten off much better than their victims.

Also, responding to Lemur's first several examples by saying those are all just the one Native American genocide is overlooking the tremendous diversity of Native American tribes, the great number of different individual groups perpetrating genocide against Native Americans, and the vast geography and timeframe involved. While it's possible to consider all such killings part of one large genocide, it's also reasonable to consider it a huge collection of genocides practiced on the same continent.

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