How do you explain a sorority to someone from another country?

[KDCat]

It's not a gang. It's a club.

Seriously, though, lots of countries have Free Masons, so if the country has Masons, I'd explain that it's a fraternal organization for college women and college graduates, sort of like the Masons.

If they don't have Masons, I would explain that it's a club for college women and college graduates that does a lot of philanthropy work and sometimes offers housing to its members.

[AnchorAlumna]

I believe in another thread someone described student clubs that are common at some European colleges and universities, but most of them are co-ed. Student clubs of some kind are very common everywhere - faith based, study based, interest base - but the idea of getting together with your friends is universal.

In the US, I laugh when some of the faith-based colleges declare they don't have fraternities or sororities, but lo and behold they have "literary societies" or some other single-six groups identical to Greeks in everything but name.