Simply participating in the discourse community does not mean one is assimilated with it. ... A person can participate in many communities without wanting to formally tie themselves to it. 5. Consider a discourse community you belong to, and describe how it meets the six characteristics of a discourse community.
Where a decent man can live in comfort and security, supporting and educating his children unspoiled and unpolluted; a place where age is reverenced, infancy respected, manhood respected, womanhood honored, and human life held in due regard, is where a man wants to be, but isn’t considered famously wealthy.