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This 3 page paper discusses many different aspects of membership in a community.
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to relate these individual points to their own experience. However, one generalization that can be made is that no one has yet come up with a definition of community that
everyone agrees upon, one that works in all circumstances. Some people consider their community in its most basic connotation, that of the geographical area in which they live. In fact,
that is the most common meaning of the term and the one most people understand most readily. They think of themselves as being Chicagoans, or New Yorkers, or Long Islanders.
Simply living in close proximity tends to make disparate people into a community. But there are other definitions as well. Communities may be tied together by language, religion, cultural traditions,
race, or other social aspects. That is probably the cornerstone of community: it is based on society and what society considers normal and moral. For example, to the majority of
Americans, heterosexuality is the norm, so gay men and lesbians are part of a community that exists outside the mainstream, of approved behavior, and that is defined by its status
as a group of outsiders. In considering the questions posed by the prompt for the essay, its relatively easy to see what sort of community is under discussion. When asked
if members of the community "look like you," its likely that the discussion centers on race because people of the same race often identify as community embers, as in the
"black community" or the "Asian community." However, students in college may also identify as members of the "college community," meaning a group that shares the same experience at the same
time. In that case, community members would look different. The ways in which they look the same or different depends on what community they are identified with. If its
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