Communities are based upon their togetherness and likeness of each other.  In order to be a considered a community people must have many of the same ideologies and feelings for what is around them. If a community does not have the “togetherness factor,” this is most likely due to huge differences in opinions that cannot be compromised or solved, which will lead to the dissolving of the pre-existing community.

 A community is made up of multiple people, which leads to many differences and much diversity within the culture. Because we are humans, we tend to group everyone together into these communities and assume that their ideas, thoughts, and actions are all alike. We think their motivations and goals are all similar and we assume that the people within this community will always stay within this community. We also tend to believe that people just belong to one group versus being part of many different groups as we have discovered in class. This is largely due to the fact that it is much easier for our brains to comprehend our surroundings if we lump everything together in large groups. As babies, one of the first surroundings we may learn about is a dog. Because dogs are furry and stand on four legs, many children are led to believe that cats, horses, and goats are also dogs. It is not until we learn differently or allow our minds to think about these categories that we make smaller groups within these groups.

This is the exact same with different cultures. Although there are many subgroups and people function quite differently within one community, we tend to only focus on the main group which we see because this makes it much easier. Every group has its own differences and each person within the group, although belonging to the group, is their own person.