My African Community Essay

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What is a community? According to the American Heritage dictionary a community is: A group of people living in the same locality and under the same government. I have lived in two distinct communities which are the African community and the United States Southern community. What I do admire most about them are hospitality, manners, sense of community, respect, and the desire for learning. However, I will love to improve on my African community the disregard for female education and in my American Southern community the fragments of racial discrimination and prejudice.

Hospitality, communal sense, respect and the desire for learning are what I admire most about my communities. If you find yourself lost somewhere in the south of the United

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