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Originally Posted by Taualumna
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But anyway, L.O.C.K., outside of NPHC groups, "ethnic" GLOs tend to be a post WWII thing. Many were founded in the last 20 years. Personally, I find it surprising that many Asians are joining these new organizations, because in my experience, Asians (especially Chinese) like tradition. A local girls' private school established in the early 90s is having trouble recruiting Asian students because the parents (as I mentioned in a much earlier post) are opting for century-old prep schools. I have an aunt who influenced my cousin (her son) to go to a 160 year old, very established school rather than a newer one, established in the 60s.
Do you think this is a form of rebellion?
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I don't really know much about the whole Asian parents wanting tradition and rebelling against that (my parents sent me to public school
). But I did want to add another reason onto what L.O.C.K. had said (and you yourself even sort of referenced it by saying "They do make a committment to better the community as a whole, however"). A lot of the Asian Greeks I know (and I would imagine this would probably also apply to Latino/a and African-American GLO's) joined their orgs because it afforded them opportunities to become more involved in the Asian-American community on their campus and/or the Asian-American community in general. It's kinda like joining the Asian-American Students Association or the Chinese Students Association when there exists an Undergraduate Student Association. The Undergraduate Student Association, like NPC/NIC GLO's, may not be the right fit for someone who wants to be part of something that has a particular cultural focus and works on issues specific to that culture. I don't see ethnic GLO's becoming obsolete with more cross-cultural/multi-cultural interaction and mixing. Instead, I think the future holds more intermingling in orgs. Just like how there's more minorities in NPC/NIC orgs and how there's black students (of African-American and Carribean heritage) joining Latino/a GLO's, I think in the future there will be more non-Asian students joining Asian GLO's because they have an interest in the culture and in the political issues and because they feel a fit. And I think there will continue to be more minorities joining NPC/NIC orgs, and I don't think that will make any type of GLO obsolete because they offer different things.