Community Group

The Navy Community Group


The Original paper

Community group are the primary vehicles of our life you can drive it the way you want it to be. Community is what brings the culture, languages, and people, together to form a group so we can unite as one. It is the feeling that the community gives us, that makes us come together as a family to help one another through those happy days and sad days. Somewhere you can go and feel included, safe and loved. To find people that share the same interests or values as we do, a place you can call home away from home. There are so many community groups out there that have issue with other community they fight for recognition and how is best. It is in our hand to find out what groups are good for us and wish one is bad, so we have to take our time to pick the right one.

My community is the US Navy, we can come together when our love ones is gone overseas, or when our love ones have passed away, do their work. There are many different kinds of people in the navy community group; it changes as we move from state to state. I have met many wonderful people in addition; I have hated a lot of them to. There is this wonderful lady that I been known for a while now she is about 39 years old; she is in the US Navy. I call her my auntie and when we go out, she wants me to call her my big sister. She love and hates the navy community group, the reason she love the community is that when she goes out to sea and she cannot call her family the community group will inform her family about her and her ship if there are any issues. The reason she hates the community group is because when she gotten in trouble because she had yield at her Commander Officer about some issues she had with him. The navy community group told her husband what had happen to her, that was okay but when they spread the whole story to the community group everyone was in there business asking them is she okay, is she in trouble things like that. She was very upset with the community group and she stops communicating with them. I think that was her chose to stop communicating with the navy group but I think she should have just talk to them about the issue and ask them to stop spreading her business. I do not think she should have stopped communicating with them because what if something happen to she when she goes out to sea again and they do not have any information about her family so they cannot tell them what happen. The community can cost you your privacy and it can cost you your job and family. You have to remember that if things are going wrong in your family the Navy Community will find out. The only way to keep your privacy from them you need to only inform family member or real, real close friends. I am also in the Navy Community group, I learn from other to keep thing to a minimum, and to not put my business out there for other to be nosey in. I do like the navy group because of the information I can get from them when I move from state to state. They also help me find jobs and find good schools to get in to, and they also help me with daycare and find schools for my kids. To me it is a good community I love it but I make it the way I want it to be for my family and me, and not the other way around.

When you hear the word community, we think protection, friendly people, family oriented; some might think nosey, gossip, no privacy, and competition. Many people think community can drive you to the place of insanity, but that are the price to pay when you are in community. According to “It Takes a Tribe: David Berreby, “Human beings will give a lot, including their lives, for a group they feel part of- for “us”, as in “our nation” or “our religion” (120). We cannot complain about anything that happens in the community because you should already know what goes on in community. Communities have been around for a long time we should start to do researches about the community that we are trying to get in. Some people out there will do anything for their community group, just so they can get that recognition from the leaders. As David Berreby put in his essay, “It Takes a Tribe” quoted by Professor Banaji “We Know that human beings identify with social groups, sometimes sufficiently to kill or die on their behalf” (122). We need to learn how to do thing our way and not the way that makes people happy to accepted us in there group. There are some good things about community group for instants the community groups will allow more people to have an opportunity to share their thoughts and opinions about the group. Involving young people in a community group brings with it certain responsibilities for the young ones to learn from them, giving them jobs and asking them for their opinions as well. Each community group will develop their own map for their objectives for their community to abide by while in there group so take your time and pick wisely.

Therefore Community group are the primary vehicles of our life you can drive it the way you want it to be. We can befit from the community or we can pay the price of losing our identity to them, we have to be the one in the driver seat. Not the passenger waiting on them to drive our life the way they want it to be. Community can be good for us, they can be your enemy, or they can take over your life, pick the one that fits your life. Do not rush and just jump in one that does not fit us, take your time moreover, we can found one that is just for us. Community is our vehicle it can mess up on us and it can break down when we need it the most. Remember communities are vehicles you can change them if they do not fit your needs.


The Revised Version

Community groups are the primary vehicles of our life; we can drive it the way we want it to be. However communities are somewhat base on culture, languages, and people, together to form a group so that can unite as one. There are so many community groups out there that will not accept people that do not sure the same value as the community.

Alex Espinoza, in “My Filipino Roots,” describes his community by saying “I think that growing up in such a homogenized community like mine, where at least 80 percent of the population is white, didn’t really allow me to delve into my cultural identity because people don’t celebrate their backgrounds. Usually when my peers are asked about their respective heritage they respond by saying, “I don’t know what I am, I am white” (131). Having issue with his community, Alex Espinoza has recognize that his community has deny their Filipino Heritage and choice to claim there white Italian side.

One type of community I belong to is the US Navy community. The only people that are allowed in this community are the retired and active navy families and also other military community. There are so many different kinds of culture, religion and people that care about others. You will see a lot of people that will migrate to there own cultures and religious because they do feel more comfortable. There are some people that will look down upon a person because they do not think, feel and act the way they do. This is why there are so many groups in this community that a person can choose from that can fit their needs and wants. Once you are in the community we will receive an ID badge that has your face and other information on their so you can get on the base. This community is a fun and safe, welcoming place to be.

The feeling that a community can give people, that makes them come together as a family to help each other get through good and bad times. People do want to belong to a community group no matter how small or how big the group is. The reason is to feel the need of belonging and the ability to be needed by somebody can make a person feel good about them. To find people that share the same interests and values can make the community an easier place to be. There are millions of families in the navy community that change over the year or months. To see people come and go can be hard, but it can be also fun to meet a new person that comes from all around the world. As a person traveling through the group to find the one that fit them, they will find some nice people on they way.

I interviewed an older lady who has been in the navy community for about 15 years now. She knows a lot about the navy community then I did. She said it was “a community that has potential to change a person life and the way they see the world. The navy community can give you that experience of what you are looking for no matter how hard it is. It can be hard to see people all in your business but “they are there to help”. Also you have to always watch your back because there are some people that do not like to other exceed over them.” (Smith).

Will my travels in the navy community started 8 year ago. In resent year I have see a lot of people come and go in my life. I have learned that with out the navy community I would not have met those wonderful people. I have seen changes in the last year or so, the community are have more family nights and helping the military spouses get jobs and get in to schools. The thing that this community is missing is privacy. Having a lot of people in your business can be upsetting even if it is suppose to be good. To me I think that many people do not go to their military community because they are afraid of what they say. The navy community is not there to judge, they are there to help those who can not help themselves.

In the essay by John A. Hostetler,” The Amish Charter, regardless of any possible cost to themselves, the members are required to put into practice what is required by duty, honor, personal loyalty, and religious calling. The fundamental values and common ends of the group, recognized by the people and accepted by them, have been designated as the charter” (140). Community group are there to support you no matter how they feel or think. If you open up to them members can share painful issues and positive experiences involving their families, friends, and colleagues with you.

People play a special role in community groups they can assist people to manage difficult times in their lives and to be as independent as they can be. However, when hear the word community; people think protection, friendly people, family oriented, some might think no privacy, and competition. There are a lot of communities out there we just have to find the right one that fit your needs so we can drive it the way we want. In communities there are intent, beliefs, resources, and preference, needs and ricks but at the end of the day we are the ones that have the degree of cohesiveness.