We all belong to different communities. Many of them in fact. Some of these communities we are born into and while we have the choice to abandon them, they tend to be personally defining in a way that makes them worth working on. The obvious one is country, a community where compromise and sacrifice is worthwhile just to ensure the survival of an entity that defines millions in myriad ways (culturally, economically, institutionally). Other communities are ones that we join freely. A local lodge, a club/meetup with people of similar interests, a church, and even a neighborhood where we choose to live are all such communities.