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Originally posted by Marky123:
no, I am not member of a brotherhood as we call it here. They are not that common like in the US. Ca. 98% of all Greeks in Germany are anyhow males only!! I.e. sororities numbers next to zero. That's not attractive to me (as male  ).
And, most "chapters" are highly political, conservative, i.e. like right-wing republicans in the US (somewhat like a Pat Buchanan-attitude). Guess what I mean?
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Hi Mark,
thanks for your quick response. I would like to make a few comments to your statement for the greeks here on the board:
the picture that you draw about fraternities in Germany is highly biased and does not really reflect insight as it seems to me. Plus, you don't join a fraternity bacause there are sororities in the first place but because you like the people in the chapter you join. Have you actually ever been at a fraternity in Germany? Then you should know that you should differentiate more. I can tell because I am actually a member of a German fraternity.
That same statement is true for American fraternities even though they are somewhat different from their European counterparts. Without knowing anything about them personally, I would be careful about believing everything written in magazines or newspapers. I think, it is highly unfair to judge organizations by predjudices only, without really knowing anything about them.
In addition, I urge you to watch the words you use in your statements. Please use a dictionary once in a while because some of the words you use might be understood as insults and some of the things you write about are very sensitive topics in the USA. So, please try to be a little more sensitive even though I think my fellow American greekchatters will be far too polite to tell you that
Cheers, Matt