monoculturalism

English

Etymology

From monocultural +‎ -ism.

Noun

monoculturalism (countable and uncountable, plural monoculturalisms)

1. The practice of maintaining, in a society, a single culture, suppressing the (sub)cultures of e.g. minority groups and excluding external influences.
2. The creation of a monoculture in agriculture.

Coordinate terms

• 2, biculturalism; 3, triculturalism; several or many, multiculturalism or polyculturalism