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13 Mar 2019 Conversations with Tyler Raghuram Rajan on Understanding Community
“There are some people who prefer the anonymous existence of the city. And there are some people who come back from the city, back to the community because they like the sense of identity that it provides.”
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- Raghuram Rajan
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- 13 Mar 2019
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…But if people are leaving villages in India or, for that matter, in America, isn’t that a sign they’re rejecting community in some sense? They find it too stifling? They prefer the anonymous, impersonal existence of the big city? Well, there is some of that. There are some people who prefer the anonymous existence of the city. And there are some people who come back from the city, back to the community because they like the sense of identity that it provides. We are with people we’ve known for many years; they are who we are, in some sense. You’re defined by the people around you. I think there’s room for both. In fact, the book is about saying, “Look, let’s create the possibility for all kinds of communities to coexist within a country.” How much of the decline of community do you think is actually the decline of religion? Take this country, the United States.…
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