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What does this quote mean? To belong is to understand the tacit codes of the people you live with?

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It means belonging is knowing how others think and acting in a certain way so your relationship grows stronger
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It means that you truly belong when you understand the unspoken communication of people you live with.
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Belonging is the total acceptance of a group ethic whatever it may be.

To "belong" means to go along with unspoken rules of conformity regarding dress codes, how you talk, where you go to school, whatever prejudices the group holds,i.e. against blacks or jews or catholics or Russians or Chinese or people from the other side of the tracks ...whatever biases they hold you also hold. In some cases it gets to mean where you live, what you drive,and where you worship God. Belonging can be religious, national, regional,work-related neighborhood....there are all kinds of belonging but generally it means your social milieu, the people with whom you live.
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