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🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

fragmentação cultural

Pronunciation / Transliteration: fɾaɡmẽtaˈsɐ̃w̃ kuɾˈtʃuɾaw

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Cultural fragmentation/ˈkʌl.tʃər.əl ˌfræɡ.mənˈteɪ.ʃən/
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"A fragmentação cultural é um desafio para a sociedade contemporânea."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The process or state in which a culture becomes divided into distinct and often conflicting subcultures.

    "The rise of social media has contributed to cultural fragmentation, as individuals increasingly identify with niche communities."
  2. 2

    A phenomenon where cultural elements are disjointed or disconnected from each other.

    "Cultural fragmentation can lead to misunderstandings and tensions between different social groups."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'cultural', derived from the Latin 'cultura' (cultivation, tillage) via French, and 'fragmentation', stemming from the Latin 'fragmentum' (a piece broken off) from 'frangere' (to break). Emerging in late 20th-century sociological and anthropological discourse, it describes the dissolution of unified cultural narratives into diverse, specialized, and often isolated subcultures driven by globalization and media diversification.

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🇫🇷French → English

fragmentation culturelle

Transliteration: frɑ̃ɡmɑ̃taʃjɔ̃ kyʁtɛl

"La fragmentation culturelle peut entraîner des conflits sociaux."

🇩🇪German → English

kulturelle Fragmentierung

Transliteration: kʊlˈtuːʁɛlə fʁaɡmɛnˈtiːʁʊŋ

"Kulturelle Fragmentierung kann zu Spannungen führen."

🇮🇹Italian → English

frammentazione culturale

Transliteration: frammentatʃjone kultuˈrale

"La frammentazione culturale è un fenomeno crescente nella società moderna."

🇪🇸Spanish → English

fragmentación cultural

Transliteration: fɾaɣmenˈtaθjon kulˈtuɾal

"La fragmentación cultural puede afectar la cohesión social."

🇵🇹Portuguese → English

fragmentação cultural

Transliteration: fɾaɡmẽtaˈsɐ̃w̃ kuɾˈtʃuɾaw

"A fragmentação cultural é um desafio para a sociedade contemporânea."

🇮🇳Hindi → English

सांस्कृतिक विखंडन

Transliteration: sānskṛtik vikhaṇḍan

"सांस्कृतिक विखंडन समाज में तनाव पैदा कर सकता है।"

🇨🇳Chinese → English

文化碎片化

Transliteration: wénhuà suìpiàn huà

"文化碎片化可能导致社会冲突。"

🇰🇷Korean → English

문화 단편화

Transliteration: munhwa danpyeonhwa

"문화 단편화는 사회적 긴장을 초래할 수 있습니다."

🇯🇵Japanese → English

文化の断片化

Transliteration: bunka no danpenka

"文化の断片化は社会的な緊張を引き起こす可能性があります。"

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