I hate quoting old posts but this jumped out to me (the red lettering helped a bit). What makes your organization "more multicultural" than others? The fact that you say you are multicultural? All of our orgs are multicultural, some of us just don't feel the need to shout it from the mountaintops.

Besides having multicultural membership, what makes your organization "multicultural?"

Besides having multicultural membership, what makes your organization "multicultural?"

Frat,

First of all, I too believe in the 7. :D

Anyway.... Multicultural GLOs are organizations that intentionally promote multiculturalism and cultural pluralism through their mission, programs, and history.

There have been lively discussions about the topic prior to you getting to GC, but I can't recall their titles.

ZChi4Life provided an answer to this on page 10 when she stated:
"I can only speak for my org, but I'm sure other MCGLOs will agree, MC for us comes from membership AND the entire focus/purpose of our organization. Multiculturalism is encompassed in our programming, community service, etc, etc. We don't serve just one type of ethnic/racial community, we serve everyone."

I'm sure one of the reasons Alpha Phi Alpha isn't shouting it from the mountaintops is that it is not the purpose of your organization. While you have a multicultural membership you have always, and I suspect always will, serve the African American community.

Thank you both for an answer to my original question. I must have overlooked it since it was presented earlier.

This is true. As long as the need is great (and I suspect it always will be), our number 1 priority is the African American community although I also suspect that we will serve others more and more. This is happening already since some communities which were once 100% Black are now becoming more diverse. We've also had non-African Americans receive scholarship awards for college so it's just about where the greatest need is and since African Americans are among the greatest in need (and always have been in this country) and because our founders deemed us responsible, we can never lose our focus.

Wow! :eek: I didn't know that. That's deep... :( I guess for some it's all about the QUANTITY of members and not the QUALITY of members. To some orgs, it's all about the numbers, numbers, numbers. Too bad... It's like some orgs wanna have 150,000 members a minute after their founding. Calm down... :rolleyes:

AMEN!! That would so not be OK with me. IMO that's just plain shady... If I were a PM, I would definitely think twice about joining an organization that did this. Who's to say what their focus will be in 5, 10, 15 years from now when some new "trend" (for lack of a better word) pops up. What next? Gonna change the focus again? :confused:

Y'all need to stop pussy-footin and name some names up in here.

I've seem some orgs drop "latino/a" on their national site and members now claim that they are a multicultural organization but have seen some chapter websites of said orgs that claim they are the largest latino/a org in the nation, just as recently as this morning, as a matter of fact.

Yo no se:confused:

LOL. Is your PM status back up or do I have to dig through old emails to find your email address?

I turned them back on, at least until the next stalker tries to blow it up. ;)

Wow... That's tacky. Plus ~ where is the consistency between Chapter and National organization? Does it even exist anymore? Is that too "old school"? :rolleyes:

You are SUCH a bad influence! :D

I don't know why but this made me laugh!

On the topic, I believe for ALL of our organizations, old heads treat many of the newest changes with disdain. Some changes are understandable and are a natural progression as new generations enter the orgs. However, when an org attempts to alter its original purpose, older members will be less likely to financially support the org and it will become unstable. That's the LAST thing you want as a younger organization.

I don't know. The terms Latino and Hispanic are not something that came up from a movement like the evolution of the words negro, black and african-american. Both terms have been around for a while and taught at most schools in Latino American countries.

Now, maybe they grew up here and no one told them about the difference between a descriptor of a language and a descriptor of a group of people in many nationalities that share more than just the language.

Or perhaps they were going for what poorly foreign history educated Unitedstatians would understand...who knows