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SOPi_jawbreaker and violetpretty-
Your posts were both very helpful. Thank you.
SOPi...I know of the fraternity that you're talking about if indeed you're from PSU. We're actually very similar to them here, albeit not as active in shows and such. Perhaps that's where we can place our efforts.
Violetpretty...I joined a South Asian fraternity, because unfortunately at my school everyone creates cliques along racial lines and that goes for Greek life as well. If I wanted to, I would have been the only South Asian person at most of the NIC/IFC fraternities. You made a lot of really good points. We're definitely for diversity and being cultural and well-rounded is a part of what our fraternity stands for. Even though it seems like we're a bit too cultural at this point, I can definitely see us interchanging our strong points.
The brothers that felt we needed an image repair actually did at one point get a brotherhood trip to the mall in an effort to get the not so cool lookin guys to up their image a bit (of course we didn't tell them this). Although, this ultimately failed because the brothers that needed it the most ironically thought they didn't need to shop ("I have enough clothes"), but it was a good time just hanging with them.
And a lot of this has to do with experience. When Doves Cry said she's sorry and I'm sure she's a nice person. She's also probably had experiences other people (Mostly non-Asian) haven't had such as when "fobs" try too hard to fit in to their counterpart Asian clique that's Americanized and that may be where she got her perception of them being annoying. I understand we have to be PC all the time these days, but it just makes it harder to get to the issue. Of course not all of them are annoying and I know When Doves Cry knows that, but try to understand where she might have been coming from I guess.
And just because we don't think fobs are cool doesn't mean we don't appreciate what our parents have done for us.
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