Blog 1: Community

Blog 1: Community

We define community as a group of people with shared goals, culture, language, and location. In this day and age, communities can be formed with varying definitions of the aforementioned terms. Since the advent of the internet, location has to be redefined in order for above definition to make sense, adding virtual places as well as tangible ones. Even people of different languages and cultures can form communities with their own ideas of culture and language, in which these communities share the cultures of the individual, and communicate in ways surpassing the human language.

The sustainability of communities depends on how close the people are to each other, not just in location, but in communication. The more willing the individuals are to work toward the common interest, the closer they inherently become. Even communities with diverse cultures and languages can sustain themselves if they work together for a common purpose. Colleges, more specifically ours, provides a clear example of a community with diverse cultures, ideas, languages, and locations that sustain themselves with a common goal, in this case, the pursuit of knowledge, and of graduation.

Javier thinks that he has no right to define what a “good” community is, since the term is ultimately relative.

Javier and Sarah