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Since my retro recruitment thread's theme was about the discrimination that I and my eventual sorority's sisters faced I feel that I can address this issue in general. Was there discrimination? Yes. Is there discrimination in sororities now? At the campus that I know about...no. Are there pnms who have a problem with being Jewish, or thought of as Jewish...yes. And I think herein lies the problem, which is NOT with the sororities. (This is the second thread, one deleted, where a pnm wants to hide being Jewish and this one where "ancestors" whatever that means...grandparents, parent? were Jewish) Incidentally, I strongly suspect that the "ancestor" isn't that far back because many Jews changed their names (Berkowitz to Burke, for example) in the early to mid 20th century. After that very few family names were changed to hide or to become more Americanized.
If a pnm rushes and is cut from a dearly wanted house it is very easy to assume for these girls that it is because of the Jewish factor. It probably wasn't the "it" factor. But to go to college and hide a part of who you are leaves you wide open for very unpleasant episodes. Again, why would you want to join a house (if they exist today) where Jews/African Americans/Asians/whatever you happen to be aren't accepted? And somehow you got in by "passing", the term from many years ago, you will never be at peace, you will always be on guard and your sisterhood will be phony.
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