How Do People Define A Community

How do people define a community? Some many define community upon several features such as ethnicity, race, occupation, gender, or on geography. Others many define community as a group of people that come together that have similar interests and ideas. “In the United States, we pride ourselves on rugged individualism and the pioneering spirit; at the same time, we believe in collective values” (Shea 259). Community remains a group of people that have the same interests and intentions and community also needs individuals that have their own values and thoughts.
First, community remains a group of people that have the same interests and intentions. A community that has the same interests will strive better together because they all like and want
A community needs people with different thoughts and values because other people in that community might have the same thoughts, but do not want to try and form a new community. “ But nothing important, or meaningful, or beautiful, or interesting, or great ever came out of imitations” (Quindlen). She states that the best people in the community appear express originality. The community already has “perfect” people in the community, which remain the people that follow act and do exactly what other people do. Likewise, in the article, “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For, Henry David Thoreau, a philosopher, poet, essayist, naturalist, and an outspoken social critic, wrote, “Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito’s wing that falls on the rails.” Thoreau states that people should not concern themselves with all the little unimportant details that happen throughout the day. People should focus on themselves and better themselves, instead of worrying about other people. Both of these articles state that people who form their own thoughts and only worry about themselves do not create conflict by trying to please everyone they