How many people have to die to be considered as a holocaust?. I only hear about the Jews holocaust. What about the annihlation of the Native Americans in North America. The African slavery, poured in the ocean waters after their deaths in 400 years?
2006-10-12 22:10:19 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
The term "holocaust" has been specifically applied to the murder of Jews, Roma, homosexuals, Slavs, and others, during World War II. The word "holocaust" actually means "all burnt up". The term "shoa", meaning "calamity" in Hebrew, is actually preferred by many Jews.
In general, we would speak of "genocide" or "mass murder" to refer to many other instances of an attempt to destroy an ethnic, racial, or religious group.
2006-10-15 05:54:35 · answer #1 · answered by george_klima 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't understand why what happened to the Native Americans is not considered a Holocaust.
However, the slavery I do understand. It didn't even come CLOSE to hurting the population of darker-skinned people in the world, and it happened over a matter of a couple centuries, not a decade or so, like the Holocaust.
I don't think it's the sheer number, I think it's the number compared to how many years it occured over, and versus how many there were or are of that particular people in the area that the mass murder happened in.
It's not a racist thing. I don't think so, anyway.
2006-10-13 05:16:42 · answer #2 · answered by The_Cricket: Thinking Pink! 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Holocaust was horrendous for a number of reasons, not 'whiny Jews' as some **** above has said.
The Holocaust was not only the slaughter of 6 million people, one of the greatest numbers of people ever killed in an ethnic cleansing, it was also a Mechanised-Industrialised affair. The Native Americans were treated disgracefully, but you never stuck them in Ovens and experimented on them. You never evolved an entire industrial system to systematically murder them.
If you truely understood the Holocaust, you wouldn;t be asking these kind of things
2006-10-13 05:23:08 · answer #3 · answered by thomas p 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Can't think of a place in the world where it isn't or hasn't occurred in some form or an other. Occurred while taking over continents, religious wars, tribal wars and just plan stupidity.
Key right now is learn from history, recognized this inhuman act and prevent it from happening again.
2006-10-13 08:21:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
what about he native south Americans there where six million are so. then NOW there about 250.000 left. what about them.? they have been murdered. no one seems to care . I do.there were eight million native Americans then there where about 300.000 left at the turn of ther century we should make reparations. more then we have. god bless this miserable land we have made. out of there wonder full pristine land god save us from hell for doing this to this once great land untouched. only by gods hands.and his people. who lived here in harmony with nature.
2006-10-13 05:20:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree with you, there were many "Holocausts", just called different names. I think it would be as you said, mass murders. There have been so many, take your pick.
2006-10-13 05:22:03 · answer #6 · answered by shardf 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They have to be Jews. 60 million people lost their lives in WW2, but according to whiney Jews today and Jewish influence in the U.S. all you hear about are the 6mm jews who did.
2006-10-13 05:16:46 · answer #7 · answered by midwestbruin 3 · 1⤊ 4⤋
That was before "modern history".
Sad isnt it?
2006-10-13 05:15:09 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋