My family is new to the specific neighborhood that they are now living in, and this Thanksgiving, coming back from the walk, we discovered that our whole neighborhood is a small, shared imagined community — they all have the tradition of putting up Christmas lights on the night of Thanksgiving, a shared tradition that underlies a sense of belonging throughout the whole community. Our neighbors form a larger family of choice as we get to know them better, join their traditions, and become a part of the larger kin of the neighborhood.

Guest, Kenneth J. Essentials of cultural anthropology a toolkit for a global age. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2018.