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Originally Posted by shinerbock
While I'm not really disagreeing with you,but in my experience multi cultural glos tend to take anybody. I just don't really understand the point of a private organization if there are very low requirements for membership, but that is just me.
On a side note, I really get annoyed when people act like segregating yourself is such a small minded thing to do. Simply because I hang out with people like me doesn't make me "uncultured." Most of the members of my all white fraternity are very well traveled, schooled and cultured. We simply have found things we like, and prefer it that way. Lack of diversity doesn't always mean a lack of culture.
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By "tend to take anybody" do you mean that you've observed that MCGLOs have no standards or that they don't take cultural/ethnic background into account? I will only speak for Theta Nu Xi, but our screening process is stringent. However, we do not take cultural/ethnic background into account. This is why we have a high number of women in influential arenas like law and politics. We have lawyers, doctors, CEOs, etc. in a high concentration for such a young organization, if I do say so myself. Theta Nu Xi accepts leaders and scholars. It's quality not quantity for us.
Regarding culture vs. cultures, I believe you're talking about two different things. I grew up in Atlanta but what I consider to be my family name (not my current last name) and my family home ties me to the Old South. The family is quite established and operates in that "culture" (although I have all but shed that image). Culture, in that sense, and what I think you're talking about is more akin to "high class" than anything. Cultures (as in multicultural) is about a conglomeration of varying international group identities. We have thousands of distinct cultures within the U.S. that cross ethnic boundaries.