Genocide vs. Ethnic Cleansing?

Are ethnic cleansing and genocide considered the same thing? If not, how are they different and the same? What would be considered genocide and what would be considered ethnic cleansing?Genocide vs. Ethnic Cleansing?
Genocide is the killing off of an entire race regardless of colour, religion, etc.





Ethnic Cleansing is where you kill of part of a race based on a specific criteria (usually religion or tribe).Genocide vs. Ethnic Cleansing?
Both are bad
They are the same thing, but with different scopes. Genocide is the planned extermination of an entire national, racial, political, or ethnic group. Ethnic cleansing is the same thing, but only in a particular country or region.
it depends on what we're talking about, are we going to ethnic cleans all the illegal mexicans?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Genocide is killing off an entire race.





Ethnic cleansing is clearing one area of a certain race
The United Nations specifically defines genocide. The political reasoning behind a very specific definition is that the international community is not required to get involved unless it is a declared genocide... i.e. that the mass violence matches certain criteria. The U.N. definition of genocide is that the violence has a specific goal of eliminating a race of people. Ethnic cleansing is an attempt by a group or groups to ';cleanse'; an area of an ethnic group. The most interesting thing to me is that often the decision of whether or not it qualifies as genocide lies in the intent of the PERPETRATOR. This focus on definitions of ';race'; and ';ethnicity'; and such is frustrating because they all focus on the intent of the perpetrator, not the pain of the victims.