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Is that just your personal opinion or is that actually a widely held view by NPHC members?
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I typed about this pages ago. If you understand the general purposes behind the NPHC sororities and fraternities, you will understand why we nationally do not tout racial diversity and particularly non-minorities. Even the more racially and ethnically diverse NPHC sorority and fraternity are still majority people of the African diaspora (across ethnicities, languages, cultures, and continents). This is not by accident.
Individual chapters do whatever they do based on their campus and city environments but that is their choice. Even these chapters know that diversity does not mean ignoring different racial and ethnic histories and identities. It also doesn't mean that white aspirants (using white as an example) can become members without any understanding of the racial and ethnic identities and history of the majority of the membership. Some of us see it comparable to knowing the history and present day significance (and subjectivity) of notions of gender, womanhood, and feminism if you want to join a sorority.
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Originally Posted by 28StGreek
Regardless, I find that kind of attitude to be disturbing if you at the same time criticise the lack of diversity of other groups.
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Show me where I criticize the lack of diversity of other groups.
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I have never once felt that the colour of my skin or my race had negatively impacted my Greek experience at USC. As someone who grew up outside of America, I always found it so perplexing that there were communities who would make a storm about race relation issues, toleration and acceptance; yet at the same time cling on so tightly to their minority identity.
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People who type what you typed cannot be the least bit concerned with diversity. You first need to understand the "why" and "how"--and stop pretending that racial and ethnic identities are a bad thing--before you claim to want diversity. That is what some of us have been saying for pages. I would have never been attracted to a GLO in which the majority of members say what you said in the bolded part of your post. I also would have never been attracted to a GLO in which the majority of members say "we don't see race, ethnicity, and culture...we are just sistersssssssssss...."