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Originally posted by Taualumna
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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This might be true for some segment of a college population, but here we are discussing minority women who are seeking sorority membership, and why they do or don't go NPC. However, to address your reply here, I think you are making a very broad generalization about people who speak other languages (your reference to the "fact" that people who don't like to speak English will be less likely to gravitate towards organizations that do). I knew of several Latinas at my university that joined Chi Omega, and according to them, they spoke Spanish all the time at the house. Apparently they did not prefer to speak English outside of school, but yet they still joined an "English speaking" organization because that is the sorority they wanted to be a part of. They didn't let this "language" thing that you are describing stop them.
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