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Economic globalization has tended to strip out local cultural differences and nuances as if hierarchical uniformity were an end in itself. The practitioner must therefore contend with certain despair in many communities that have given in to lockstep dependency on “the system.” Restoring a sense of identity to the community may be an unexpected but necessary adjunct to a sustainable community development (SCD) project. A community’s identity may have been lost over some time as knowledge of, kinship with, and pride in its particular assets have atrophied. So perceived problems need to be looked at seriously, in the context of who the community is, to truly assess which problems the community should really spend its time on.
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Flint, R.W. (2013). Understanding the Community Context. In: Practice of Sustainable Community Development. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5100-6_6
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