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Originally Posted by ellebud
.........gosh am I happy I live on the west coast. We may live in LaLa land but at least this issue doesn't come up in my daughter's school as far as I know. Looking through this year's bid day celebration pictures at my daughters house I know that I am correct. (And if you remember, back in the day when I went through recruitment Jewish girls could only join one house.)
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Yessss, some people's accounts of the west coast have an awesome way of making people confuse "tokenism" with real cohesion; or confuse seeing browner faces (not tan) in bid day pictures with the issue never coming up.
That's why it is no surprise when people learn
"you can pledge my chapter but we can't be 'friends' or you can't really know me outside of this GLO and campus context" or
"let's get some Hispanic, Asian, and/or Black members...but then let's pretend that we don't notice race and ethnicity and pretend we're in some dumb melting pot...although I wouldn't do this outside of my GLO context."