How far does our ‘community’ extend?  In the past, it might have been limited to our village or, more recently, our suburb.  This would be overlapped by our extended family and, for many working men, the crowd that gathered after work at the local pub.  In the countryside it may have been a collection of farms and the Country Women’s Association and in Australia it would also have been indigenous tribes.  Some of these communities still exist.

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