What do people think about ethnic GLOs

[daydreamer1112]

I don't really like the idea of ethnic GLOs. Having seperate fraternities and sororities for the seperate ethnicities creates additional seperation between races, and I think that's detrimental. At the same time, I do realize that many ethnic people are interested in joining ethnic GLOs because they don't believe they would be accepted and respected in traditional GLOs (and sometimes, this is true), they have a lot of pride in their race and want to show it, or they simply feel more comfortable with people who come from the same racial background as they do. So, in short, I can see how and why people might feel the desire to join ethnic GLOs, but I hope that at some point in the future we become colorblind enough as a society that those reasons are obsolete.

[jaynu]

Originally Posted by daydreamer1112

I don't really like the idea of ethnic GLOs. Having seperate fraternities and sororities for the seperate ethnicities creates additional seperation between races, and I think that's detrimental. At the same time, I do realize that many ethnic people are interested in joining ethnic GLOs because they don't believe they would be accepted and respected in traditional GLOs (and sometimes, this is true), they have a lot of pride in their race and want to show it, or they simply feel more comfortable with people who come from the same racial background as they do. So, in short, I can see how and why people might feel the desire to join ethnic GLOs, but I hope that at some point in the future we become colorblind enough as a society that those reasons are obsolete.

I don't think ethnic GLOs create additional racial separation, but rather create more cohesive ones within an ethnic culture. I would imagine that African Americans earlier last century needed to have their own brotherhood, or perhaps, didn't have a choice but to.

If it was easy to break racial boundaries, I think it would've happened already and these ethnic GLOs wouldn't be so popular as an alternative.

[ejay286]

Originally Posted by daydreamer1112

I don't really like the idea of ethnic GLOs. Having seperate fraternities and sororities for the seperate ethnicities creates additional seperation between races, and I think that's detrimental. At the same time, I do realize that many ethnic people are interested in joining ethnic GLOs because they don't believe they would be accepted and respected in traditional GLOs (and sometimes, this is true), they have a lot of pride in their race and want to show it, or they simply feel more comfortable with people who come from the same racial background as they do. So, in short, I can see how and why people might feel the desire to join ethnic GLOs, but I hope that at some point in the future we become colorblind enough as a society that those reasons are obsolete.

I highly doubt that blacks and other minorities join these groups because they feel they wouldn't get accepted. Its all about preference. Noone wants to join something they wont enjoy being a part of. For example, go to a predominately white frat party and it consists of lots of alcohol use coupled with lots of people standing around talking and random crazy things happening. Go to a predominately black frat party and there is usually very little alcohol with lots of dancing and strutting. Take a person from each party and switch them and they probably wouldn't enjoy themselves. I know partying is not the main reason for joining a greek organization but that is just one aspect that I thought of.