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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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But these same kids who live in predominantly white, upper class neighbourhoods may have attended boarding schools where they met, roomed and hung out with students from all over the world. In any case upper class neighbourhoods in some parts of the continent are actually quite diverse. I'd say that if upper class people were hiding at all, they're hiding from lower income people more than they are from minorities. It's just that in some areas, upper income families tend to be white.