Which of the following elements contribute towards the making of a community?
A. sharing language
B. sharing religion
C. sense of belonging
D. physical proximity
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → A, B and C only
A. sharing language Correct. Our community gives us our language, the mother tongue, and the cultural values through which we understand the world. People who share a language feel they belong together.
B. sharing religion Correct. Religion is one of the strongest bases of community. Families and religious or regional communities give a person an identity that is hard to shake off.
C. sense of belonging Correct. Community identity is based on birth and ‘belonging’, not on any qualification or achievement. It is what we ‘are’, and people feel a deep sense of security in belonging to it.
D. physical proximity Incorrect. Living close to one another does not by itself make people a community. Neighbours in a city may share no language, religion or sense of belonging, while members of one community may live far apart. A community is held together by shared identity, not by distance.
NCERT (2025-26): “6.1 The Importance of Community Identity … The socialisation 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 the language (our mother tongue) and the cultural values through which we comprehend the world. It also anchors our self-identity. 98 Community identity is based on birth and ‘belonging’ rather than on some form of acquired qualifications or ‘accomplishment’. It is what we ‘are’ rather than what we have ‘become’. We don’t have to do anything to be born into a community – in fact, no one has any choice about which family or community or country they are born into. These kinds of identities are called ‘ascriptive’ – that is, they are determined by the birth and do not involve any choice on the part of the individuals concerned.…” |