The community that I would like to identify and discuss is Hawaii, my home state. Hawaii is a community because it is composed of many different people living and often times working together in a common environment.
Although everyone in the state calls the islands his or her home, each and every person varies. Hawaii is composed of a particularly diverse ethnic population, but everyone is also diverse in their experiences in life. Many people have lived in the islands their entire life while some are only there for an assigned time period of military duty. Most of the Asian population came to the islands early in the 1900s to work on the plantations and have since branched out into just about every other field of work.
The community of Hawaii is also unique because it is like its own little world. You can find just about any resource on the island. The drive from a mountain to a beach could be as short as half an hour. There are beautiful green mountain tops flowing with cold waterfalls and warm sandy beaches all in the same community.
Hawaii is also unique because it is a home to an indigenous group of people, the Hawaiians. The Hawaiians are a minority in their own homeland and the mixing of ethnicities in the islands is further diluting the Hawaiian race. Some people believe the Hawaiians to be a dying race, but they are coming back stronger than they have been in the last century.
Another aspect of Hawaii that is unique is that it is composed of many different islands, and each island is their own community within a larger community. As you head west from the easternmost island of Hawaii, each island is older than the next. For this reason, each island varies in population and landscape.
Another part that is pretty unique to Hawaii is its tourism. Tourists visit the islands so frequently that Tourists in general are considered a part of our community even though each individual tourist has his or her own community. They are from another community, but they help to form ours.
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