What do communities have

He's well known in the local community. Her speech caused outrage among the gay community. Unlike the present government , we believe in serving the community. Let your voice be heard on this issue ; join our Facebook community. My family is aware of the way my virtual community has infiltrated our real world. I have been watching the forum develop and grow as an online community for librarians to exchange ideas about using technology.

Her death is a grievous loss to the whole of the community. Her ideas have attracted a lot of attention in the scientific community. In this school , most of the children are from the Chinese community. The poorest sections of the community have much worse health. The tragedy has shocked this close-knit rural community. Groups of people. Ordinary people. Internet terminology. The community is sometimes used to mean society in general :. This is a restaurant that also provides training for unemployed people from the local community.

See also bedroom community. Basically, you have to find the best ways of working with the community. In the silence of an early morning walk recently, the crystal song of a scarlet red cardinal atop an oak tree awakened me more fully. As I stood listening to him and his mate in a nearby tree serenading each other, a couple walking their dog joined me.

Without speaking a word, it was clear we were enchanted by the gift of their song, and we joined together briefly in a community of celebration for the gifts of Nature. The new light, the morning hymn, and the momentary connection with other travelers evoked images from other communities. Each of these whether for learning, work, healing, prayer, or friendship creates for us a safe experience of belonging, purpose, and shared values.

In them, each of us encounters who we are and what our gifts are. In the Sufi tradition, it is taught that the primary purpose of life is to awaken to the essence of who we are. Once we do so, we are invited to lovingly embrace this realization. The gift of community is that it offers each of us the fire of affirmation and support to achieve this. Do you believe, as I do, that someone in our hamlet is keeping the fire alive? We humans wither outside of community. By inclusion I mean universal access to entry, starting with legal protections against exclusion — racial discrimination, for example — but going far, far beyond.

Inclusion means access to jobs with fair pay, decent shelter, effective schools, and reliable health care. We have allowed the government to let the minimum wage lose a quarter of its value in thirty years. One out of every five jobs in the U. This profoundly disturbing assault on community calls us to accept an irony: We must risk exclusion — alienating or at least disturbing others — to become advocates for inclusion in community.

That may mean speaking our minds even if doing so triggers discomfort in others, reaching out to those excluded even when it feels awkward, engaging in visible civic public action such as a vigil or door-to-door education even where we risk angry rejection.

Appreciating that community is essential to human well being calls us to a particular kind of courage: walking with our fear of exclusion in order to stand up for inclusion.

Community is about growing with others. I grew up surrounded by a culturally rich and loving community which has shaped my identity and pride as a black Latina woman. I have been blessed to be around young people and families ever engaged in improving the vitality of their community. It enables us to share personal relatedness and support perpetual growth of each other, ourselves and our environment.

A community can be anything from a physical place where geographically people connect, or via a virtual space such as social media groups or private community platforms. Communities bring like-minded people together with similar characteristics and common interests. Every community operates with specific boundaries to meet the needs of that community. Having a sense of community embraces spirit, character, image and pride and is a vital element of a healthy community.

It is a feeling that people within the community matter to one another with a shared faith that their needs will be met through commitment and togetherness. Being a part of a community can make us feel as though we are a part of something greater than ourselves.