Racially-Induced Ethnolysis

Ethnolysis

Jason Malloy points out that the use of the word "genocide" should not refer to miscegenation:

Genocide is the murder by force of indivuals who want to live, while "miscegenation" is men and women forming absolutely voluntary relationships of their own preference.

I propose the term ethnolysis (like catalysis, dialysis), from ethnos (people, nation) and luein (to loosen, dissolve, destroy) to describe the dissolution of an ethnic group via any method, including miscegenation, genocide, oppression, ethnic cleansing, etc.

Three Stages of Racially-Induced Ethnolysis

I have coined ethnolysis as a blanket term for the dissolution of an ethnic group. One way that ethnolysis can occur is through racial intermixture, i.e., the genetic dissolution of a people by means of a racially foreign element (*)
Examples of racially-incuced ethnolysis is the creation of the Latin American nations, whereby the Native American people were ethnolyzed via the European colonists, the destruction of the pre-Aryan cultures in parts of India, or the pre-Celtic cultures in the British Isles. In these cases, the racially foreign element achieved its goal by the possession of greater strength. There are also cases where the dominant group was ethnolyzed by the subordinate one, as in e.g., the Lombard element in parts of Italy, the Bulgar element in Bulgaria, or the Spanish element in parts of America. The last example also illustrates that sometimes two ethnic groups (Spaniards/Americans) ethnolyze each other.
I suspect that there are three stages in racially induced ethnolysis. In Stage I, the balance of power/numbers is in favor of one of the two groups, which shrugs off the presence of the other as an inconvenience. Europe is probably in this stage with respect to its racially foreign population, similar to the Roman past where the early penetration of the racially foreign northern element was not checked initially, with the result being the downfall of the Western Empire.
In Stage II, maximum tension between the groups is reached, often resulting in violent conflict. An example of this is White-Black relations in the United States in the 19th and 20th century, or the struggle between Russians and Tatars. It is possible at this stage for the group undergoing ethnolysis to strike back and preserve its identity. Examples of this include the Christians of the Balkan peninsula who survived the Ottoman occupation.
In many other cases though ethnolysis is not halted at Stage II, but rather proceeds to Stage III which is also the terminal condition. We need to look no further than the history books for examples of countless peoples who no longer exist in a cultural-genetic sense, having been ethnolyzed at some point in the past by racial intermixture.
(*) I use "racially foreign" in the sense of genetically distant, rather than the stricter sense of belonging to a different human subspecies.
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