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I'm from Russia and I moved here with my parents when I was seven and a half. When I first joined a sorority, my parents were REALLY against it, they were like "well ok if that's what you really want, but we think it's a bad idea." Eventually they did warm up to it when they realized how much I loved it. Even now though, my mom always tells me I'm spending too much time doing stuff for the sorority or whatnot. I think part of it is a cultural thing because my parents don't know anyone in sororities. Being from Communist Russia, the only groups like sisterhoods or whatnot that they are familiar with, were ones that were mandatory to join that dealt with communist issues. My parents were both members of such a group called the Pioneers (think Hitler Youth only without the Nazis, if that makes any sense) because they were forced into it, so I think that definitely had something to do with why they're anti greek life.
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