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Originally Posted by UGAalum94
I wasn't picking on you with the "crippled" comment.
I think that the number of people who actually live their lives making any important judgments about people based on either kind of elitism are probably pretty small in number.
Weirdly, I'd put parents not wanting kids to join "undesirable" chapters in kind of a different category. It's the socially insecure, rather than the elite, who are going to worry about that, assuming that the kid really wants to join the chapter. Some normal parents might just be bummed because their kid is disappointed with her results. But someone who isn't interested in actively social climbing isn't going to care if her daughter wants to join the "fat chapter."
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Is there even such a thing as the "fat chapter" down South? Every girl I've seen in all these pictures is just darling!
I think this is all just another cultural difference between the different areas of the country. When I tell people where I went to school, few ask what sorority I was in, unless they were Greek themselves--we have a large Greek system, but we're known more for other things (I went to one of the big, "higher rated" publics that have been mentioned above). We have a lot of kids that come from all over the country to our school, and interestingly the Greek system is seen, not necessarily correctly, as a haven for students from certain areas, and exclusive of in state students. So again, I think it all just depends. One of my best friends from college lives in Florida now and her neighbors can't believe that she was not in a sorority and never considered it. But to her, growing up in a blue collar town in the midwest, it was never even something she considered. Again, not good or bad, just different.
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