Cultural suppression occurs when a culture

Culture

Culture is a term that has many different inter-related meanings. For example, in 1952, Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn compiled a list of 164 definitions of "culture" in Culture: A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions...

 is suppressed, usually coinciding with the promotion of another culture. It is often related to cultural imperialism

Cultural imperialism

Cultural imperialism is the domination of one culture over another. Cultural imperialism can take the form of a general attitude or an active, formal and deliberate policy, including military action. Economic or technological factors may also play a role...

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The person of the suppressed culture either seeks a foreign culture to adopt or creates a new one to replace it. The psychological effects of the former is a sense of alienation within the person of the suppress culture due to a constant internalization of the fact that he/she has leeched on to something, in this cause a culture, that is not truly theirs.

This leaves the person spinning in a state of precariousness and leads to self-loathing and intense hatred for the suppressor. The longer the person accepts the foreign culture without internalization, the more severe the alienation once (if) the person finally realizes he/she does not belong. Usually, cultural suppressions occurs when a nation wants to either discredit another nation's historical significance in order to perpetuate imperialist ideas and their own culture.

Methods

• Raiding and burning national libraries of another culture.
• Destroying significant artifacts of another culture.
• Suppressing information about another culture's accomplishments.
• Removing people from their native milieu and cutting off their ties to it.