How to obtain Greek Unity.

[DSPhinx]

So on my campus, I've noticed that there is very little Greek Unity. Houses and there members get stereotyped, and other houses get almost completely ignored. Its a rather blatant form of disrespect, this disrespect kills "Greek Unity"... I understand not everyone would get along, but sometimes, members of such and such house will completely prejudge members of another fraternity. I truly believe in the Greek System, I envision miracles behind Greek Unity... I'm just very concerned that its almost impossible, because some are unwilling to accept others. Anyone have any ideas how to improve Greek Unity? Thanks.

[The Tradition]

This sounds like a white supremacist rant only Greek. Miracles behind Greek Unity? Honestly I don't think much can be done. Stereotypes will always exist unfortunately.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by The Tradition

This sounds like a white supremacist rant only Greek. Miracles behind Greek Unity? Honestly I don't think much can be done. Stereotypes will always exist unfortunately.

Eh...what?

[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by The Tradition

This sounds like a white supremacist rant only Greek. Miracles behind Greek Unity? Honestly I don't think much can be done. Stereotypes will always exist unfortunately.

I don't understand the white supremacist reference

Greek Life often works in cycles. The rivalries that exist sometimes fizzle out and Greek relations improve. It's not impossible for Greeks to coexist.

[ElieM]

One suggestion could be to do things as a Greek Community (All Greek Fundraiser or something) to encourage friendships between the chapters

[indygphib]

Originally Posted by The Tradition

This sounds like a white supremacist rant only Greek. Miracles behind Greek Unity? Honestly I don't think much can be done. Stereotypes will always exist unfortunately.

Huh?

Are you by chance related to The Situation?

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[DubaiSis]

Not to quote Michael Jackson, but make sure you're starting with the man in the mirror. Do what you can within your own chapter first. Is there a sorority you won't mix with because they aren't cool enough? Is there a fraternity that is so small they can't really compete in Greek Week or Homecoming week that you could invite to join your (I'm presuming) larger fraternity? You're not going to fix anyone, but you can make your own group the cool guys who everyone likes. That sort of thing I think has a tendency to spread, if VERY slowly.

[The Tradition]

Originally Posted by indygphib

Huh?

Are you by chance related to The Situation?

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Haha no. The way he said it just reminded me of Nationalism. These things happen when you're a Poli Sci major I guess.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by The Tradition

Haha no. The way he said it just reminded me of Nationalism. These things happen when you're a Poli Sci major I guess.

No, a Poli Sci major knows the difference between nationalism and white supremacy.

[The Tradition]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

No, a Poli Sci major knows the difference between nationalism and white supremacy.

Your point? It reminded me of Hitler speeches, which is why I mentioned both white supremacy and nationalism. There can be both simultaneously.

[SWTXBelle]

First rule of holes . . .

[katydidKD]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

No, a Poli Sci major knows the difference between nationalism and white supremacy.

i actually agree with you for once (i have a poli sci degree)

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by The Tradition

Your point? It reminded me of Hitler speeches, which is why I mentioned both white supremacy and nationalism. There can be both simultaneously.

So This:

How to obtain Greek Unity.
So on my campus, I've noticed that there is very little Greek Unity. Houses and there members get stereotyped, and other houses get almost completely ignored. Its a rather blatant form of disrespect, this disrespect kills "Greek Unity"... I understand not everyone would get along, but sometimes, members of such and such house will completely prejudge members of another fraternity. I truly believe in the Greek System, I envision miracles behind Greek Unity... I'm just very concerned that its almost impossible, because some are unwilling to accept others. Anyone have any ideas how to improve Greek Unity? Thanks.

Reminded you of this:

1. 'NATIONAL' AND 'SOCIAL' ARE TWO IDENTICAL CONCEPTIONS. It was only the Jew who succeeded, through falsifying the social idea and turning it into Marxism, not only in divorcing the social idea from the national, but in actually representing them as utterly contradictory. That aim he has in fact achieved. At the founding of this Movement we formed the decision that we would give expression to this idea of ours of the identity of the two conceptions: despite all warnings, on the basis of what we had come to believe, on the basis of the sincerity of our will, we christened it ''National Socialist.' We said to ourselves that to be 'national' means above everything to act with a boundless and all-embracing love for the people and, if necessary, even to die for it. And similarly to be 'social' means so to build up the state and the community of the people that every individual acts in the interest of the community of the people and must be to such an extent convinced of the goodness, of the honorable straightforwardness of this community of the people as to be ready to die for it.

2. And then we said to ourselves: THERE ARE NO SUCH THINGS AS CLASSES: THEY CANNOT BE. Class means caste and caste means race. If there are castes in India, well and good; there it is possible, for there there were formerly Aryans and dark aborigines. So it was in Egypt and in Rome. But with us in Germany where everyone who is a German at all has the same blood, has the same eyes, and speaks the same language, here there can be no class, here there can be only a single people and beyond that nothing else. Certainly we recognize, just as anyone must recognize, that there are different 'occupations' and 'professions' [Stände]-there is the Stand of the watchmakers, the Stand of the common laborers, the Stand of the painters or technicians, the Stand of the engineers, officials, etc. Stände there can be. But in the struggles which these Stände have amongst themselves for the equalization of their economic conditions, the conflict and the division must never be so great as to sunder the ties of race.

And if you say 'But there must after all be a difference between the honest creators and those who do nothing at all' - certainly there must! That is the difference which lies in the performance of the conscientious work of the individual. Work must be the great connecting link, but at the same time the great factor which separates one man from another. The drone is the foe of us all. But the creators - it matters not whether they are brain workers or workers with the hand - they are the nobility of our State, they are the German people!

We understand under the term 'work' exclusively that activity which not only profits the individual but in no way harms the community, nay rather which contributes to form the community.

3. And in the third place IT WAS CLEAR TO US THAT THIS PARTICULAR VIEW IS BASED ON AN IMPULSE WHICH SPRINGS FROM OUR RACE AND FROM OUR BLOOD. We said to ourselves that race differs from race and, further, that each race in accordance with its fundamental demands shows externally certain specific tendencies, and these tendencies can perhaps be most clearly traced in their relation to the conception of work. The Aryan regards work as the foundation for the maintenance of the community of people amongst it members. The Jew regards work as the means to the exploitation of other peoples. The Jew never works as a productive creator without the great aim of becoming the master. He works unproductively using and enjoying other people's work. And thus we understand the iron sentence which Mommsen once uttered: 'The Jew is the ferment of decomposition in peoples,' that means that the Jew destroys and must destroy because he completely lacks the conception of an activity which builds up the life of the community. And therefore it is beside the point whether the individual Jew is 'decent' or not. In himself he carries those characteristics which Nature has given him, and he cannot ever rid himself of those characteristics. And to us he is harmful. Whether he harms us consciously or unconsciously, that is not our affair. We have consciously to concern ourselves for the welfare of our own people.

4. And fourthly WE WERE FURTHER PERSUADED THAT ECONOMIC PROSPERITY IS INSEPARABLE FROM POLITICAL FREEDOM AND THAT THEREFORE THAT HOUSE OF LIES, 'INTERNATIONALISM,' MUST IMMEDIATELY COLLAPSE. We recognized that freedom can eternally be only a consequence of power and that the source of power is the will. Consequently the will to power must be strengthened in a people with passionate ardor. And thus we realized fifthly that

5. WE AS NATIONAL SOCIALISTS and members of the German Workers party - a Party pledged to work - MUST BE ON PRINCIPLE THE MOST FANATICAL NATIONALISTS. We realized that the State can be for our people a paradise only if the people can hold sway therein freely as in a paradise: we realized that a slave state will never be a paradise, but only - always and for all time - a hell or a colony.

6. And then sixthly we grasped the fact that POWER IN THE LAST RESORT IS POSSIBLE ONLY WHERE THERE IS STRENGTH, and that strength lies not in the dead weight of numbers but solely in energy. Even the smallest minority can achieve a mighty result if it is inspired by the most fiery, the most pas sionate will to act. World history has always been made by minorities. And lastly

7. If one has realized a truth, that truth is valueless so long as there is lacking the indomitable will to turn this realization into action!

Because of a talk about unity? Seriously?

Stop introducing yourself as a poli sci major and start introducing yourself as someone who has taken a poli sci class and thinks that s/he knows everything.

Any tiny amount of similarity at all you might have noticed does not mean that the OP was speaking like Hitler, but that Hitler used such common ideas.

And bringing up Hitler in the first place? :

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by The Tradition

Your point?

And Poli Sci majors can comprehend. You're a Poli Sci perp.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by katydidKD

i actually agree with you for once....

It doesn't take much to turn you on.