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Originally Posted by KyleMcGuire1983
This still boggles my mind.
I could never imagine joining a "White Cultural Interest" fraternity (and no Sigma Nu is not always a "whitey frat", we're the minority at my chapter).
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Whites tend not to express their interests as "white interests" because many whites don't think they have a race or ethnicity. "Whiteness" is invisible so they see their interests as "people interests" or "mainstream interests." When, in fact, their interests translate to "white cultural interest." This is why I go beyond the race-neutral jargon to get to what (white) people are really conveying.
I find the term "whitey frat" offensive. Was it used in this thread? Being the minority at a chapter doesn't mean anything.
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Originally Posted by KyleMcGuire1983
I honestly had thought that the Sesame Street Generation had gotten past all this stuff.
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Got past what stuff?
Wanting to be around people with the same interests who tend to look like them? Why would humans ever get past that? There's nothing inherently bad about it as long as it isn't based on inequality or perpetuates inequality.
Even people in multicultural organizations want to be around people with the same interests who tend to look like them. That's why most of them have friends, family, and acquaintances of the same race once they leave their multicultural chapter meetings and events.