### social community:

Village
* Every village has a Buddhist temple, typically called a wat
  - long hall, called an aleui, where ceremonial dances and feasts are held
  - is centered around a temple and every household has a shrine
* Many villages also have a mosque where the men meet daily for prayer.
* Many villages have a church and usually a nearby monastery
  - school house and at least one teacher
  - shallow wells that are polluted with bacteria, nitrate, and other pollutants
* Most villages are small and situated near rivers or on plains
  - have a temple whose monks depend upon offerings for their daily bread
* Most villages have an annual fiesta in honor of their patron saint
  - obeah woman as the dispenser of medicines, enchantments, and advice
  - civic centers and libraries
  - health centres
  - local temples for worship
  - markets where woven silk, cotton, and other fabrics are traded
  - pharmacies that carry both human and animal medicines
  - public health posts and schools
  - run private generators that provide sufficient electricity for lighting only
* Some villages are accessible only by water
  - feed chickens
* Some villages have a power house which supply electricity at certain times of the day and night
* Some villages have no electricity at night
  - telephone lines at all
  - their own cheese factories where farmers can sell or trade their milk
  - raise cattle
  - still practice the ancient art of fishing in dug-out canoes.
  * are never non-notable. It's not like we don't have room
* also contain religious shrines, water sources, and agricultural fields.
* are cities
* are located in big cities
  - countrysides
  - rural areas
  - worlds
  - mayors
  - settlements
  - small ecosystems which belong to larger ones
  - the most advanced form of human organization in western Asia
  - towns
* are used for playing
  - sleeping
* can also spawn in the heathland.
* consist of kin
  - walled compounds containing dwellings, vegetable gardens, and fruit trees
* embrace many ethnic groups and cultures.
* generally have sparse populations and single social traditions.
* get electricity.
* have an abundance of human and animal wastes - a source of pollution and disease
  - homes
  - rights
  - the same broad general police powers as cities
* sometimes communicate with one another by the beat of drums made of hollowed logs.
* take care.
* vary greatly in the numbers who migrate and in their degree of skill.
* work together in building houses and clearing fields, and celebrate together at feasts.
+ Village, United States, Incorporated villages, New York state
  * In New York state, a village is a place which is usually in a town. Some villages are in two counties.

### social community | village:

Indian village
* Many Indian villages have their own special product or crop.
* Most Indian villages have their local tales and legends.

Pueblo
* All pueblos have public pilas , which consist of many sinks and a constant supply of water.
* Every pueblo observes the annual cycle of ceremonials and gathering known as feast days.
* are games
  - sienna-colored, but the sun changes that
* come in two forms, either parallel street forms, or plaza forms.

Small village
* Most small villages have homes.
* cluster around oases and thin seasonal waterways.
  - massive churches

Virtual community
* Virtual communities are a major trend in marketing on the Internet today
  - mecca for finding people on the Web
  - about aggregating people
  - interactive spaces that have a distinctive focus
  - social aggregations that emerge from public discussions
* Virtual communities are, after all, a large part of the Internet
  - in effect, powerful databases filled with people
  - use computer technology to bring together users with similar interests
* is community at zero cost.