• How Does Your Community Impact The Pillars?

How does your community impact the pillars? --- 100 Words each ---

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Politics--- When it comes to how a person shapes their political views, one of the key elements which have a role in doing so would be that of the person's local community. Quite often the community in which one interacts with will have different characteristics which would either benefit or be harmed by certain political legislation or ideas. For example, a local community which contains a state ran university which employs a large amount of the populous would influence the person to support more Democratic policies since such policies of raising taxes for higher education would favorably impact the area. Such benefits would include a boost to the local economy (due to more purchasing in the area) and to the local government (from the new tax revenue), both of which are of benefit even if one does not work for the university. Thus the ways that political policies affect a community makes the community one lives a key factor when developing their

That is because the economic, religious, and ethnic backgrounds of a community help to set up what is their "social norm" which in turn extends to what is to be viewed as the norm with regards to the family unit. A community which is composed of deeply religious adherents of Mormonism, for example, would hold vastly different opinions on the notion of a married gay couple than would a more secular community. So when it comes to what is to be considered a "good" or "bad" marriage is defined most often by the notions held by those in a community as influenced by their characteristics (Henslin,