Being one of the few minorities in my chapter I am well aware that I am always going to be pegged as "the asian chi-o." It's a decision that I made though. It's weird, because I certainly don't feel the same pressure that a black girl would about joining a BGLO since Asian sororities are not all that common. I think that I could never feel comfortable in an asian sorority anyways. I grew up in a predominantly white town in Louisiana. Racism, I grew up with it. Somehow though, I feel that putting myself in these diverse situations only makes me a better person. Obviously, my childhood would have been a lot easier if I lived in a asian neighborhood and only talked to asian people. In reality though, the world doesn't look like that. The world is not all black and all white. Some of my asian friends feel sorry that I go to predominantly white school and that I don't get to hang out with asians, but my school is probably a pretty fair representation of the way America looks today.
At the same time, I have been thinking about recruitment lately. I am about to go through my first recruitment period this year, and I was thinking about how one of my black sisters wanted to get more black girls in our sorority. Recruitment should not just be about getting numbers or having a "toekn black girl".
RedHotChiO
[This message has been edited by RedHotChiO (edited May 28, 2001).]
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