Hi, i was a member of a small national sorority on a campus with many large national sororities and now many small New and local multicultural sororities. THese new multicultral sororities do not like the national soririties because they say we are not supportive of them, well i can not speak for everyone but this is my take on the situation. see my campus is very "group" oriented, greeks only hang out with greeks and jocks only hang out with jocks, well this is also seen amoung nationalities (usually people that dont fall into the other groups). People like to just stay with like people, which is somewhat a basis of greek organizations but when it comes to forming new greeks chapters that are all either latino, african american,or asia this does draw people from the rush pool. see there will always be the same amount of white people joining the national sororities and fraternaties but when new organizations are formed that are for just latinos or asians then that is taking away the diversity frm the national sororities (or "white) houses. I personally dont like this. I was very proud of my house that we were fairly diverse, especailly for my campus in general, but when a group of latino women for a latino sorority then they do not want to join a national house, which takes away the diversity of those house. I know many people that dont want to join the national sorirites because they are not diverse enough, well when people start and only join lation groups or african or asian groups then the national houses are going to be less diverse so less desirable to new students of color. i dont hate new groups, but i just dont want people to continue to separate themselves, i want people to become diverse and accepting, but that is really hard when people form groups that are only for latios or asians or africans. If my campus has groups that were going to be welcoming to everyone, like multicultural groups then i think that would be better, but its just the idea that most of the new groups are taking away the diversity that could exsist in the national houses. I would love to have houses that are big and diverse, but on my campus the big houses are the "white" houses simply because the students of color want to separate themselves and i think that is what i dont like about new groups. I hope that this make sence, i beleive in diversity and do not mean to sound racist. but i do know that i can come across sounding like that. if someone would like to discuss this with me feel free to email me. thanks debbie
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