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Originally posted by Taualumna
Yeah, but how many of the above mentioned organizations, other than "ethnic" clubs have members that have recently arrived or came to Canada after say, age 12? GLOs, while multi-cultural, certainly don't have too many "new Canadians" as members. I know a girl, who is CBC (Canadian BOrn Chinese) like myself who said that GLOs are "for white people" after I told her that I intended to AI.
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Okay off the top of my head:
Gamma Phi Beta has one sister from Isreal
In Lambda Chi Alpha we have 1 brother from Dubai, 2 from Iran, 1 from South Korea, 1 from Germany, 1 from "the fromer Yugoslavia", 1 from Isreal, and 2 from Russia.
Deke has 2 brothers from the Philipines (I think)
Sigma Pi has brothers from India, Malta, and Lebanon (don't know which are alumni now though).
I know that there are a lot more "new Canadians" in the greek system than this, but these are the ones that I know about. Having seen the number of "pledge" pins at Woodsworth alone or around campus I would hazard a rough guess that around 10% of the greeks are "new Canadians".
The whole idea that GLOs are some sort of "white only clubs" is the kind of negative sterotype that we are always fighting..... well other than the belief that GLOs don't exist in Canada
. Besides if the greek community at UofT reflects the student body even remotely, it is going to be a very culturally diverse group..... don't forget that as of 2 years ago "Whites" are no longer the majority at UofT.