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Originally posted by LatinaAlumna
Language has nothing to do with it. I can't believe I am reading this comment. You are saying that it is hard for NPC to recruit minority students because they don't speak English? I have never heard of this in my LIFE. I would say that most of the Latino, Asian, African American, etc. students at my university spoke English very well. What university do/did you attend where the minority students have such a widespread language problem that it affected your recruitment activities? We are not talking about the world population at large--we are talking about university women here. Again, language has nothing to do with women not joining NPC.
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Lots of minority students don't speak English outside of school and may not feel very comfortable joining clubs that are English speaking. This is from personal experience: In high school, the many of the Asian students (I would say the majority) are boarders from Hong Kong and Taiwan and would never interact with English speakers (including Asians) outside of class time/class projects. People who don't want to speak English outside of school/work are less likely to gravitate towards organizations that do.
At my non-Greek undergrad school, there were several cultural clubs aimed at Asians, including at least five or six for Chinese students (some Cantonese speaking, some Mandarin). Most of these clubs printed their ads in Chinese only. If you didn't read Chinese, but were still interested in joining an Asian interest club, there were other options for you.
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