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Originally posted by reverie
We have that problem with my APO chapter all the time: Are we greek? Are we not greek? People say things like, you shouldn't have so many social events if you're not a social fraternity. But there are definitely distinctions between social, service and non-traditional GLOs. The founder of APO was an SAE so it was modeled after the social fraternities, but it's not quite the same thing. (For example, we can't have houses or throw open parties.)
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Right. I have no issues with people saying, "Well, we're Greek, but our organization is different from the social Greeks you usually think of when you hear that word." But I think that as long as you have Greek letters in your name or utilize them somewhere in your ritual, you're "Greek." The whole "We're Greek but we're not
Greek" meaning "But we're not like
that" is really insulting to a lot of social Greeks (or, like I said before, to anybody who fits the more traditional system mold that you're being compared to), but I see it a lot even on Greek message boards.