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Originally Posted by Senusret I
^ sigmadiva, do you think it occurs to them that they might be shunned? Or even whether they had ever been shunned previously. Remember that rush is the first time a lot of these women have been "judged."
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Exactly. Also, a lot of these girls haven't been shunned by their non-black peers, but by black classmates and relatives. If you're the Only in your social circle, and you haven't been excluded by your white friends--what happens when you go to visit relatives, or you're in a situation where you're around a lot of people of your ethnicity and they accuse you of "acting white"?
The summer before my senior year in high school, a pre-college week at a well-loved and regarded Southern university. It was geared towards black students who were interested in certain career fields. I was pretty excited about it, since the college was very popular in my hometown and I had visited the campus and LOVED it before. Well, I was stunned to find out that, according to most of the girls in the program, I "acted white," I "talked white." Hell, according to a few of them, I even "sneezed white." Seriously? I had never heard anything like that before.
I doubt my experience is that unique...so, if you have teenagers who have experienced that more times than I did, why wouldn't they go NPC, when their friends are doing the same thing?