Communitas
-We’ve only just started Turner’s work but from what I can tell from both the reading and our first couple lectures is that one of the key ideas that we are going to focus on is communitas. When hearing about communitas for the first time, it immediately made me think of freshman year. Everyone’s past high school lives no longer matter. Our previous grades didn’t matter nor did how popular we were, we were all freshman equals together. Turner talks about how unique the culture of communitas is and it easily relates back to my previous thought of freshman year. Never in my life had I been surrounded by so many strangers and left to make it for myself in the world and never again will any of us have a “new beginning” like that. Just like Turner focuses on how everyone in a communitas is an equal, we too were all equals when we arrived here at CNU for the first time.
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