2007-01-08 00:32:19 · 8 answers · asked by JO 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
one is more PC than the other, it's like saying HIV instead of AIDS.
2007-01-08 00:36:22 · answer #1 · answered by Jessy 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Like the other guy said politics. People think of genocide and get upset- ethnic cleansing sounds less brutal somehow.
2016-03-29 15:50:23 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that "ethnic cleansing" is a "nicer" term, if you will, for genocide. It all involves the horrible killing of lots of people, just because they are different.
2007-01-08 00:36:11 · answer #3 · answered by amg503 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Semantics. They're both methods of exterminating whole groups of human beings.
2007-01-08 00:45:09 · answer #4 · answered by Child 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Spelling.
The outcome is the same, the purpose is the same and the root causes (hatred, fear, evil, pride, ad nauseum) are the same.
2007-01-08 00:41:53 · answer #5 · answered by thankyou "iana" 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not much when they both end with the same thing.
2007-01-08 00:35:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
all of the same thing. call murder anything, it is still murder. doubly horrible is the contrived eradication of a people.
2007-01-08 00:41:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing but psyche!
2007-01-08 00:36:20 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋