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I think about it a lot, and I totally agree with you.
Most of my best friends aren't Greek, and their goals are different from my Greek friends, even if it is just a matter of interests. For example, my sisters are focused on practical matters of finding a job in a stable field (lots of I-bankers and I-banking wannabes!), while my best friends have found things that they love that won't necessarily break the bank--like film, or academia. I don't know how much this has to do with being Greek, or if it's a class thing. I have been thinking about this a lot now that school's almost over for us. On the same token, my sisters are much more outgoing than my indie friends, and I've found that Greeks as a whole are much more outgoing and extroverted.
Do you think that it's because a person is attracted to an organization like a fraternity or sorority, that they are fill a few very general categories? Middle/upper-middle class, politically centrist or conservative, outgoing, etc., seems to be the general theme of my house (except for me--I'm a flaming liberal), and it seems to be the general theme of Greek life on my campus, at least.
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