1: There is a group of people like this
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Mr. A. thinks, “We’re all part of a community!” he thinks.
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Mr. B sees “A, B, and C are the regular core members and the rest are guests”.
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Mr. C thinks, “Mr. F must be one of us.”
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Mr. D thinks he is a “regular core member like A, B, and C” (but neither B nor C think so).
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Mr. E. thinks “I only attended an event once, I don’t belong to the community.”
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Mr. F thinks “I just attended the event with my friend Mr. C. I didn’t join Mr. A’s community.”
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2: These various individual feelings of belonging to different communities overlap to form a “somewhat colorful, boundary-blurring group”.
- “There are two societies.” “Communities do not objectively exist” is “Communities do not objectively exist, but rather there are what each person subjectively believes to be a community, which overlap to form a group with blurred boundaries.” I think we can agree on that if we bite the bullet.
- Each is an individual belief
- It is easier to develop shared beliefs when people perceive the same scope as a community, for example, if you create a group chat and plug into it, or if there are initiation rituals of community participation. - legitimate participation.
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