Cultural fragmentation

Lack of cultural integration is the disharmony between cultural heritage and national identity. It is almost impossible to integrate different cultures into the national unit without a loss of cultural heritage, yet where cultural heritage remains completely intact there is division and social conflict. So far there seems to have been little success in finding a happy medium between assimilation and separatism.

1. We must also add the differences of culture and value systems between the various population groups, differences which do not always match the degree of economic development, but which help to create distances. These are elements and aspects which render the social question much more complex, precisely because this question has assumed a universal dimension. (Papal Encyclical, Sollicitudo Rei Socialis, 30 December 1987).

1. Social fragmentation
2. Social divisions
3. Loss of cultural heritage

1. Schizmogenesis
2. Lack of appreciation of cultural differences
3. Inter-cultural misunderstanding
4. Inadequate cultural integration of immigrants
5. Heterosexism
6. Divisive effects of official cultural pluralism
7. Cultural barriers

1. Taboo
2. Social conflict
3. Social breakdown
4. Segregation of poor and minority population in urban ghettos
5. Secession
6. Lack of variety of social life forms
7. Lack of social mobility
8. Exploitation
9. Ethnocide
10. Destruction of human heritage

1. Uncontrolled migration
2. Socially unintegrated expatriates
3. Social inequality
4. Religious discrimination
5. Primitive secret societies
6. Military and economic hegemony
7. Language discrimination in politics
8. Inadequate cultural integration of immigrants
9. Cultural deprivation
10. Colonialism
11. Political domination
12. Segregation in marriage
13. Ideological impediments to marriage
14. Cultural invasion
15. Plural society tensions
16. Lack of assimilation
17. Cultural imperialism
18. Cultural discrimination

1. Homogenization of cultures

1. Territorial fragmentation
2. Forced assimilation

1. Unrepresentative national political integration
2. Symbol system failure
3. Segregation
4. Multidenominational society
5. Lack of racial identity
6. Cultural illiteracy

1. Abstaining from cultural integration
2. Providing sufficient cultural integration
3. Fragmenting cultures
4. Preserving integrity of cultures

1. Difference
2. Differentiation
3. Lack
4. Fragmentation
5. Integration