I find that community depends alot on culture. My experience of Western culture (the culture I grew up in, although not born into) is mostly Anglo-spherical, wh

I find that community depends alot on culture. My experience of Western culture (the culture I grew up in, although not born into) is mostly Anglo-spherical, which in the beginning felt like this was Western culture, but travelling through Europe I realised that there's far more to Western culture than just Anglo practices/preferences. I have found the US to be far more diverse in its Western cultural roots compared to NZ and Australia. This might be due the fact that the US received significant immigration from non-Anglo Western cultures early on compared to Australia/NZ. Anyway my point is that what constitutes "community" and whether you fit into that community depends alot on whether you can fit into that culture, and whether that culture can accept you. If there's a match, then you end up finding community easily. If there's no match, then community can be difficult, and this I believe explains why there's so many ethnic enclaves in Sydney and I believe elsewhere too. So that's why unlike the "melting pot idea", Australia tends to be multi-cultural society. This is especially difficult for people who are neither there nor here, a sort of inbetween. It takes alot of grace and self-reflection to integrate opposing cultural norms and bridge communities...