[brownsugakdphi]

Hello Everyone,


Well, I was skimming through the many responses to the question, and generally I see a lot of "white glo" vs. "black glo" reponses. However, as being a member of an Asian American Greek Letter Organization, I would like to respond to the original question.

I understand why someone would attempt to eradicate what they deem is "segregation" but perhaps it may be important to understand why that certain organization was started. It's kind of like the MELTING POT analogy of our country. People would like the U.S. to be a MELTING POT, but in that sense you are not recognizing the value of people's cultures but assimilating those cultures to the general value of the majority's culture. In the SALAD BOWL analogy, these different ethnicities can be allowed to value their own culture yet experience and understand the roles of various other groups. By establishing one general organization, you are in a fact assimilating that group. What you deem as "segregation" may be in fact a way to create more diversity.

In my sorority nationwide we have sisters of different cultures, two of the sisters at my own school were of latina descent (one being a founder). Regardless of our sorority's purpose (to promote Asian American awareness and strengthen the role of women in higher education), we can't deny the cultures of each of our members. SISTERHOOD is color blind, but our world isn't. It is a fact that some groups are less priviledged than others, and the creation of such minority greek organizations are aimed at changing that fact. So by eliminating such greek organizations, aren't you in fact taking away some of the benefits that we provide to minority groups that might not otherwise be present... In other words... for the organizations that do not focus on a certain racial/ethnic group, how often do you focus on the problems that Asian American, Latino American, African American, Native American people face, and don't you have brothers/sisters that face these problems? Just be thankful that there are organizations out there that do......

In eternal love and friendship