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Originally posted by naraht:
Two comments on that.
1) Would you rather have the service/band greeks act more like their brothers/sisters in the chapters on the non-HBCU campuses? i.e. co-ed pledge classes and no pride in their black heritage?
2) Were the Iotas immitators from their founding in 1963 until their joining of the NPHC?
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Naraht-
I just want to make a quick comment on your last comment.
Your 2nd question was
unnecessary at best.
Distasteful possibly.
If you link the first question you asked in this quote to the second one, the answer would be that we are a nationally-known BGLO. So how can we imitate when we are doing something that is a traditional concept of BGLO's (NPHC and non-NPHC).
But this comment is only if you are linking the two questions together........
About your first question, I personally have no problem with chapters of service/band organizations at HBCU's doing things like NPHC/ Non-NPHC BGLO greeks, but doing things that are obviously imitating (ie: same/similar handsigns, calls, doing VERY similar steps, etc....) are not cool.
Don't do what others are doing. Do it a different way. Be creative.
And its not all about heritage/culture. Represent the culture as you see it, but do not do/say/try/copy things that you do not know about.
One example of this is:
A LOT of people in this world have step teams and/or step and have
NO CLUE of the origin(s) of stepping.
Many people copy aspects of a certain cultural practice without knowing the history behind it. This is what receives the the disdain of members of that culture and/or those who understand the culture and thus embrace it/have it embrace them back.
That's just one example........
That is all for now.
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[This message has been edited by suntzu1963 (edited August 09, 2001).]
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