[DHgirl]

Forgive me for being insensibly naive, but I'm amazed that this is such an issue. I'm in a local which is very mixed and we absolutely do not consider ourselves multi-cultural. Despite this, we still do "cultural" stuff. A number of us always do the South Asia Society dance for the school's culture show--and it's an "ethnic mix" of girls. We hit up the San Genaro festival and dinner in Chinatown as fall rush events. We don't do this because we're promoting culture or trying to incorporate ethnic histories into our organization, but because it's fun. We avoid holding major ceremonies and events on friday nights because we don't want our two members who keep the sabbath to miss things.
We do that not because we're trying to play a cultural awareness game, as such, but because it matter's to us that all of us have the chance to be at important events. It's funny. When we talk about targeting specific "groups" during rush, we mean convincing more artists and architects to give being greek a chance (our school is only art, architecture and engineering, and sometimes its like pulling teeth to convince artists and architects here that this could be fun and enriching.) Strange thing was--I thougt we were "regular." Our two NIC fraternities on campus are "mixed" too. It's not like we're not aware what race each of us is--it just doesn't make a difference to whether or not you fit it. I guess I would have to say that multi-culturals are necessary until it is "normal." And now I'm going to go back to my bubble where my sisters and I can enjoy every part of American culture without having thinking about it.