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Originally posted by Tippiechick
I just wanted to emphasize that those of us in so-called larger GLOs DO respect those in so-called smaller GLOs.
I don't understand the fascination with categorizing GLOs into small pigeonholes such as most elite/ largest/smallest/ best/worst...
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Labelling things is just human nature.
But I agree with the first point.
I think some people are too quick to infer things that are not being said. I will be the first to say that when an NPC organization is smaller, that usually means less money, and less money means that they probably will not be able to compete with the larger (and thus generally richer) groups when it comes to expansion opportunities -- and that's what I've been saying throughout this thread. That may or may not be justified but that's how things are. But that doesn't mean that I respect the smaller organizations any less. There are a lot of things that I do really like about many of the smaller organizations and I have talked about them in other posts -- but that's not so much what we're discussing here.
I think one thing that is easily forgotten is that while we love the sorority we ended up in, for most of us this is pretty much a random act of chance. I'm a Tri Delt but I was damn close to being an AEPhi. When I transferred schools I contemplated going to Beloit College and UW-Stevens Point and if so I would have looked very closely at AST at Beloit and DPhiE at Stevens Point (each campus has only one national group and I was more interested in nationals than locals). It would be silly for any of us to look down on a group for being smaller nationally (or larger nationally, or more or less "elite," or having more or fewer chapters in the South, or . . .) when most of us could have probably pretty easily ended up as a member of a group that IS smaller nationally.