Communities

• What is a community and how do they form?

A community can be described as one of many situations. A community can be a social group, large or small, that share a similar culture or heritage. Communities develop when a certain group of people live around each other for a long period of time, then forming the same culture and having to survive around the same area.  That's just the general definition of a community, they can be as small as being a student in a school, an employee in a workplace, being part of your town or even being as large as the country you live in. An example of a large community developing over time would be the Pilgrims. This group of people originally from England, came to America seeking a brighter future and religious freedom. They were forced to start from the ground up and build their life from nothing. The Pilgrims then began to live around the same area, work together and survive with the help of one another. They shared the same religion from the beginning and had similar cultural values. Over time they formed a community that was able to last for many years.

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