Community is a feeling, a perception of connectedness - personal connectedness both to other individual human beings and to a group. Building community, then, involves building bonds between human beings. Where there is no perception of connectedness among a group of people, there is no community. Although we may live in the same neighborhood, municipality, county, region and province, be governed and served by the same institutions, we may have no sense of connection with each other, no sense that we are part of a unified group. As such, we are not of one community.

On the other hand, if we belong to a group with common interests and collectively work towards a common goal; places of worship, an office, volunteer group or school we perceive a connection between each other, we definition ourselves as part of a community.

When we speak about the "sense of community" that is missing from modern society, we are speaking about the absence of meaningful interrelationships between human beings and the absence of a sense of belonging to, and sharing a common interest and shared goals in something greater than ourselves. Globalization and migration north create bedroom communities which, by their nature 'people working in one community and living in another' are particularly challenging.

Hence, building community is the struggle against globalization that separates people from one another, and working together toward a community built by 'the' people which reflects their rights, values, morals and creative vision.