You gals are reinventing cultural Judiasm and applying it to the Greek system. If my dim recollections of religious studies serve me, cultural Judiasm, as reflected in the Old Testament, has a serious component of guilt.
There is an idea that any infraction, by any member, can lead to a violation of the Covenant with God and the abandonment of the Whole People.
Greeks are human we make mistakes, and we also suffer the judgment of those that interpet our actions as mistakes because they don't approve.
I am not sure that appeasement is the answer. And I definitely don't believe that working to create a facade of a Harmonious G-Rated DisneyWorld (or even PG-13) to keep our actions hidden is right or proper.
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Originally posted by honeychile
As a Greek community, we should be working as one in building up the positive image that Greeks are hard working, able to manage their time, able to delegate, able to cooperate, etc - in other words, the better adult, the better employee. Everytime ONE Greek messes up, the whole system wears the black eye.
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