What Defines a Community?

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How come the video footage I have which was taken at same time even has everyone saying diffrent things from yours? It's as if I was on a diffrent planet. :)

Web sites aren't communities but they are locations where communities can arise. It's so easy to move, online communities tend to become very homogenous though. It takes a lot of effort to keep it from smothering itself in orthodoxy.

It's neither differences, nor sameness.
It's just common interests. In olden times it was simply about safety. That was the common interest at that point in time.

that can be turned on its head, because arguably you could say everyone shares the same 'the degree of difference'. this possibility completely nullifies the point. therefore sameness does not seem to serve as an adequate criterion.

How does it nullify the point when you just stated that the community shares something that is the same?

Seriously...

because difference is the opposite of sameness. if even 'degree of difference' could be categorized as being shared and therefore same, then ANYTHING could be called an aspect of 'sameness,' and therefore any group of people could, under your suggested terminology, be called a community. that would nullify the point because it would make 'the act of defining a community' pointless. if everything's dark, there's no point in making the word 'dark' as opposed to light, or 'not dark'.

In a way you are right. Certainly it's in context. If aliens invade earth then all of a sudden just being human is a "sameness" that can bind a community. If half the human population all of a sudden lost one arm then sameness would be drawn along those lines to a degree.

Certainly with humans, such things as race, intelligence, ethnicity, nationality are very powerful biological sameness groupings.

The point is that sameness has more power then difference, whatever that sameness is.

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