A community is a place where one lives, works, and plays. The word community is also used to refer to some subgroup, as in ‘a community of scholars,’ or ‘artists.’ A community is a social organization that is “territorially localized and through which its members satisfy most of their daily needs and deal with most of their common problems” (Olsen 1968). Community occupy particular territories, share and display common values such as a mutual sense of dependence, identity of interests, a sense of belonging, and an expected pattern of behavior. The essence of community is the feeling of belonging or the “we.’
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