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Originally Posted by Regina Filangie
I think this is what seems offensive. This statement sounds like the silly little southern girls just care about joining a sorority and not academics.
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And I'm going to make a somewhat ridiculously relativistic point.
Even if we took the statement at its somewhat offensive level, one could still argue that what the southern girls were groomed for was as important to their long term quality of life as elite colleges were for the girls groomed for them, assuming all accepted the values of the culture they were raised in.
Obviously, an elite education in certain fields is more universally valuable than joining a top-tier GLO at Bama. But if you're going to settle down in Mobile, your general quality of life might be better as a former Phi Delta Theta or a Kappa from Bama than if you were a graduate of Princeton.
It's provincial, sure, but not everyone gives a flip about elite colleges.