Community
The notion of a community is something that, as humans, we hold on to on a regular basis, with communities formed at every step throughout life.
A community is notoriously hard to define, though it is easy to picture it as a large group of people who work or live together, or regularly interact with each other. This may take the form of the residents of a small village or it could be districts within a larger urban area such as a city.
Communities will often work as a whole to help the individual, forming groups such as neighbourhood watch, in which measures to tackle crime are undertaken by members of a community. They may then work together in cleaning up the streets, offering help to other members of the community (through classes, help groups, large events and others), or many other tasks.
Another area that one might feel that they are part of a community could be in a university setting, in which students will spend at least their first year of study in halls. It is here that the university may arrange many social events within that community and friendships will subsequently develop amongst those involved. Just as in life outside of a university, people may then congregate in a social space such as pubs, bars or restaurants. This demonstrates a social side to the community, that it involves people coming together and meeting each other in a friendly setting.
But communities can exist on a much larger scale as well, showing once again how hard it is to define. The whole planet could be defined as a community as it includes a wide range of people living together in one location, and this can continue at each level down to a group of people living in a house. So a continent, a country, a county, a city or a town could all be grouped together as forms of a community.
As a result, it is not uncommon for people to define themselves by the community that they live in. This could include nationalities or a particularly devotion to a town or city, meaning that communities play a big role in the world that we live in, defining and shaping the way in which we live our lives.