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Originally Posted by shinerbock
What I meant by taking anybody is that the multi cultural orgs I've seen often tend to value the "multi cultural" aspect than anything else, and thus just take anyone who wants to be a member.
Regarding the cultural issue, I'm not quite sure I follow. What I meant is that people like myself, who were in all white fraternities, who prefer upper class neighborhoods with fewer minorities, are often considered to be hiding from the world, or "uncultured." What people fail to see is that many, if not most of us, are better educated and traveled than the large majority of people. We're not hiding in our own corner of the world, or unaware of the big world out there. We've seen it, and we also have found a part we prefer.
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The problem most people have is that they see you saying things like neighborhoods with a low number of minorities in them... and see that as racist. I get the impression you like nice, expensive, high class neighborhoods. That quality has nothing to do with the race of the people living there. Yes, there are probably fewer well off black people in the south, or at least your part of it, but you have to understand that I live in a nice neighborhood, right by a park, where no one is rich but no one is poor and we're probably 50% white and 50% not.
Do you see why from MY perspective race/culture has little to do with quality?