Every human being needs a sense of stable identity to operate in this world. Questions like — Who am I? How am I different from others? How do others understand and comprehend me? What goals and aspirations should I have? – constantly crop up in our life right from childhood. We are able to answer many of these questions because of the way in which we are socialized, or taught how to live in society by our immediate families and our community in various senses. The socialization process involves a continuous dialogue, negotiation, and even struggle against significant others (those directly involved in our lives) like our parents, family, kin group, and our community. Our community provides us with the language (our mother tongue) and the cultural values through which we comprehend the world. It also anchors our self-identity.

Which of the following is NOT true in relation to community identity?

Community identity is based on birth. Community identity makes a sense of being and belonging. Community identity is an achieved identity. None of the above.

Community identity is an achieved identity.

Community identity is not achieved identity. It is an ascribed identity.