How do you explain or define community? (Ethic? Religious? Racial? Geographic?
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My Community is defined by the people that I interact with on a day to day basis.  I live in a fairly diverse ethnic and religious area so it really can't be defined that way.  As far as geography, my community includes my friends in college that I speak to daily on email and phone.  I still have them in my circle of friends so I include them as my community.  The businesses that tou go today to day, like the coffe shop you stop in everyday and speak to the girl that rings you up every morning. Well at least that is my community.
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The word itself is a Latin derivative of "ignorance", (though most people believe that it refers to Niger - which unfortunately happens to be in Africa - however, they are called Nigerians).  To answer your questions...\n\n1) I am PROUDLY Multi-Ethnic and a "true" American.  My heritage spans 5 of the 7 continents - from Northern Africa, to most of Western Europe, to Asia, to both North and South Native America's.  (You should see our family gatherings!)  There's no Aborigine or Penguin yet - but I'm working on the latter - LOL!\n\n2) Never!  It's nasty and only proves your ignorance for using it - either colloquially or in hatred.\n\n3) It pisses me off!  Especially when used by African-American youth or other Black people in so-called "friendly" conversation.\n\n4) Most definitely!  See above.\n\n5) Even more so - I am not, have never been and never will be racist.  I judge people on their character - not the colour of their skin, their race, ethnicity, religeon, sex, level of intelligence or sexulaity.\n\n6) Only this.  I am not a religeous person, but I am very spiritual.  I just respect myself and above all, respect other people and nature the exact same way I want to be respected.  \n\nI was raised 1/2 Jewish and 1/2 Catholic, (I should have twice the guilt - LOL!), I believe that god - whatever he, she or it may be, created us to love each other respect each other and help each other in times of need.\n\n7) Besides - everyone's blood is red, (when it hits oxygen - in our bodies it is actually blue!), everyone's s**t stinks and finally - we will all die.\n\nThat's all - hope this helps.
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Well, you know the answer to your first question, Paul compares the Church to a body,  another (and similar analogy says that we are branches on the vine of Christ).  The similarities between the body and the community?  Each person has a unique function and role to play, but we all draw nourishment from the same bloodstream.  The christian community is diverse, we have those who are discern (eyes, ears, noses?) those who labor (hands, feet, legs) those who are hard to acknowledge (butts, private parts) ... a little of everything.  The deliniation exists, and this story, to help us see one another as essential in spite of our differences, as well as encouraging each one to use their God given gifts to benefit that community.
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Treat others with love and respect.\nStrive for justice and peace.
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A community is an amalgamation of living things that share an environment. The individual living beings can be plant or animal; any species; any size. What characterizes a community is sharing interaction in many ways. In human communities, intent, belief, resources, preferences, needs and a multitude of other conditions may be present and common, affecting the degree of adhesion within the mixture, but the definitive driver of community is that all individual subjects in the mix have something in common. This is even true in biological communities.
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Isolation. I don't know what to believe, so this isolates me. People are telling me left and right that I need to believe in something, and that I don't have much time to choose. 'Choosing.' It's such a strange term for such a thing as spirituality. They make it seem like you're at a fast-food drive-thru. Like you're picking an item off of a menu.\n\nThis is something I take seriously, just to let you know. One shouldn't 'choose' religion in haste. A person should make an educated decision based on where s/he is in life. Does this decision make you comfortable? Will you be more isolated? Rejected? Hated? Will you be satisfied with your decision later on in life on your deathbed? Will you regret everything you know?\n\nIt hurts. You don't know what path you should go down. You never know if you can travel back, or if the path will be covered by leaves, or if there's a big gaping hole where there was once your path. It's up to a person to responsibly walk down whatever path they 'choose.' Choose wisely. Or be your own person. That would be better...
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There are many different ways to use the word "Race".  You could be describing the Human Race, or something as defined as the specific breed of person or animal.\n\nRace is described as follows:\n\nA local geographic or global human population distinguished as a more or less distinct group by genetically transmitted physical characteristics.\nA group of people united or classified together on the basis of common history, nationality, or geographic distribution: the German race.\nA genealogical line; a lineage.\nHumans considered as a group.\nBiology. \nAn interbreeding, usually geographically isolated population of organisms differing from other populations of the same species in the frequency of hereditary traits. A race that has been given formal taxonomic recognition is known as a subspecies.\nA breed or strain, as of domestic animals.\nA distinguishing or characteristic quality, such as the flavor of a wine.
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Merriam webster online dictionary:\nEtymology: Middle English, from Late Latin ethnicus, from Greek ethnikos national, gentile, from ethnos nation, people; \n\nHEATHEN\n2 a : of or relating to large groups of people classed according to common racial, national, tribal, religious, linguistic, or cultural origin or background <ethnic minorities> <ethnic enclaves> b : being a member of a specified ethnic group <an ethnic German> c : of, relating to, or characteristic of ethnics <ethnic neighborhoods> <ethnic foods>
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The Bible is full of Gospel drama and usually has a religion based lesson to teach.Community drama is more worldly demonstrates what is happening in the community i.e gang violence,protests,neighbors not getting along, lost pets,fires, floods etc.day to day life.Katrina affair is a community based drama.Response to the Iraqi war also.
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politically or individually: relationships consisting of parties stamming from different cultural, i.e. geographical, religious, etc. backgrounds. Relations would probably describe the dealings between those parties. Is that what you were looking for?
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Racism or religion - people are passionate about both xx
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Religionis a system of social coherence based on a common group of beliefs or attitudes concerning an object, person, unseen being, or system of thought considered to be supernatural, sacred, divine or highest truth, and the moral codes, practices, values, institutions, and rituals associated with such belief or system of thought. It is sometimes used interchangeably with "faith" or "belief system"[1], but is more socially defined than that of personal convictions.\n\nCASTE-Caste systems are traditional, hereditary systems of social stratification, such as clans, gentes, or the Indian caste system\n\nCustom-consists of established patterns of behaviour that can be objectively verified within a particular social setting. Generally, customary law exists where\n\na certain legal practice is observed \nthe relevant actors consider it to be la
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Community exists within society.
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"Love one another."\n\nTHAT'S what it all boils down to.
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Community\n\nIf you can spend time in that community and environment that you ""must"" use that language to survive. That will help a lot.
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from a place where people dont care\n\n\n\n\n a place to think about the past...\n\n\n\n\na place where no one cares..\n\n\n\nbut this place changed...it became a place where\n\n\n\nsomewhere i belong...every one who loves me now!
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prejudice   \n\np-r-e-j-u-d-i-c-e