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Originally Posted by Drolefille
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They are multicultural without a multicultural focus. I think that everyone on here, including "someone" knows that. Representing ourselves as "multicultural sororities" when the common use of the term is something else is not a good idea.
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All I'd add is that we obviously disagree on what is "common" - the average person is more likely, imho, to define "multi-cultural" as Merriam-Webster does, and not as the relatively small percentage of Greeks who define themselves as multi-cultural do. In fact, even here on GC there seems to be a divide, with many NPC/IFC members using the M-W definition, while HBGLO/MCGLO use the newer, less-familiar definition which actually seems to be more describtive of focus, as you pointed out, then membership. NPCs have been criticized in the past because of a lack of multi-cultural members - and so it can look like a criticism when they are told they are not multi-cultural.
But the problem there is using a modifer (multi-cultural) by itself - without specifying whether it is a reference to members or focus. A lot of grief could be avoided, I think, if that were clear.
We need a lolcat ASAP. I'm all for the laughs, too.
