White genocide (Armenian: սպիտակ ցեղասպանություն, romanized: spitak tseghaspanutyun or Armenian: սպիտակ եղեռն, romanized: spitak yeghern) is a descriptive term that is used in the Armenian diaspora,[1][2][3][4][5][6] for the threat of assimilation, especially in the Western world.
[7][8] During the late 19th and the early 20th centuries, the Armenians who lived in their ancestral lands that were then part of the Ottoman Empire were targeted for systematic extermination.
[10] The German political scientist Christoph Zürcher notes: "Genocide" became a key word, which had several connotations.
"White" genocide or "white" massacre denoted the repression, assimilation, or forced migration of Armenians from their historical lands (which were far larger than Soviet Armenia and included Karabakh, as well as areas belonging to contemporary Turkey).
[11]Western Armenians consider Armenians who assimilate to the local population of the country to which they were eventually forced to emigrate (such as United States, France, Argentina, Brazil and Canada) as lost to their nation because of the continuing exile after the actual genocide itself, and they thus consider that lost Armenian to be another victim of the genocidal attempt to eliminate the Armenians.