Cultural Assimilation: Cultural Chauvinism

As part of cultural assimilation, aggressors may systematically impose, through state institutions and media, the idea of the unconditional superiority of the metropole's culture over the culture of the colonized society. Cultivating a contemptuous attitude toward the art, traditions, and customs of the local population instills in it an inferiority complex, stimulating mass voluntary renunciation of one's own roots for the sake of successful integration into the aggressor's society.

ID: T0115.003
Sub-technique of:  T0115
Tactic: Persistence
People: Ukrainians
Contributors: decolonial.ist project
Version: 1.1
Created: 21 April 2026
Last Modified: 9 August 2026

Procedures Carried Out


January 1913
C0051 Ban on Culture and the Press Before World War I (1913–1914)
G0009 Russian Empire
S0008 Government

The ban on attending cultural events: the district curator "issued an instruction in which he declared students' attendance of Ukrainian theatrical performances as inadmissible as spending time in billiard halls or beer houses"[1].

January 1978
C0054 Financial Russification of Schools (1978–1983)
G0010 USSR
S0008 Government

The ideological exaltation of the metropole's language: the all-Union scientific-theoretical conference "The Russian Language — the Language of Friendship and Cooperation of the Peoples of the USSR" (Tashkent, 22–24 May 1979) adopted detailed recommendations on Russification - from organizing "the study of the Russian language in the senior groups of preschool institutions" to "the use of the Russian language in lessons in other school subjects" in the senior grades of national schools[2].

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