Thanks so much for the replies!
Actually I'm a brother of Lambda Phi Epsilon. Us and Mr. Hayward's fraternity, PDPsi are "supposed" to be rivals
. I've currently tried to contact a D9 member that we know and I'm just waiting for his reply.
Btw, with regards to style, some of our chapters have actually tried to form a unique signature -Umich performed a cool step using kendo sticks to form beats- but besides that most of us have yet to create something unique like that.
I like the idea of hiring a step-master from a BGLO, but I still want us to make our own thing.
Compared D9 Greeks, we're like babies (founded less than 30 yrs ago) and it's tough to form our own culture and identity without borrowing from other orgs. We already wear line jackets, have the nicknaming and numbering tradition, the call out tradition, and maybe even part our pledge process was influenced by BGLO's (?). And of course there's also the fact that we like to step, even though it has nothing to do with asian culture. We should try and be more independent
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I've actually always wondered how exactly did the asian Greek culture (or minority Greeks in general) become so similar to black Greeks. I don't think we were pledged by any D9 organizations, but I heard some Latino fraternities or sororities were. I wonder if we were ever "educated" or influenced directly in some way by a BGLO. I admit I would be a bit disappointed if our older bros simply decided one day to imitate a group of people on campus that they were strangers to because they thought their line jackets looked cool.