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Originally Posted by ΑΓΔSquirrelGirl
In my opinion pledging to be loyal to your organization is a promise to be honored. I'm not going to like every Alpha Gam on the planet...heck I'm not even going to like every single Alpha Gam that goes through Gamma Upsilon. But we all promised loyalty to Alpha Gamma Delta. Not just to our chapter, but to Alpha Gamma Delta and to each other...not everyone sees it the same way, but I wouldn't have joined and made promises just to have a social club...I take promises and loyalty seriously and I feel I have an obligation to my sisters, whether I like them or not, whether they are like me or not.
As for Greek unity, it's a valuable concept. It doesn't mean putting all your time and effort into someone else's organization, it just means cooperating, being nice, civil, and sometimes compromising for the greater good, which strengthens a school's Greek system and benefits everyone. It's really not that hard and it's very beneficial.
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Nobody said anything about a social club. I have a strong bond with the members of my chapter. I can identify with them, we have similar backgrounds, opinions, and beliefs. I can't do that with a lot of people from our other chapters. I think for a lot of fraternity members, there are probably other fraternities that they can identify with, if they were members. They probably even believe in many of the same ideals as fraternities different from their own. What separates your own fraternity from the one across the street? Experiences, similarities, personal bonds. Those same things separate me from members in our chapter at California University at Hippieville. I'm sorry, but unless I have some personal experience with people from other chapters, if they're completely different from me, our similar beliefs in strong but possibly vague principles aren't going to provide an unbreakable bond.