More Black students joining Latino Greek organizations

[ufdale]

I was a little suprised and very upset about how segregated college is. My highschool (IB) was like a mini UN, but then I came to college and everyone went to their own cultural groups. My best friend who's Columbian only hangs out with the columbian group, my jewish friends joined the predominantly jewish fraternities/sororities, and on and on.
Perhaps people want to be around people that they identify with...but we used to identify ourselves together, so what happened? Ehh I've given this a lot of thought and it has bothered me for sometime, but I don't think I'm saying this right.

[cutie_cat_4ever]

Originally Posted by ufdale

I was a little suprised and very upset about how segregated college is. My highschool (IB) was like a mini UN, but then I came to college and everyone went to their own cultural groups. My best friend who's Columbian only hangs out with the columbian group, my jewish friends joined the predominantly jewish fraternities/sororities, and on and on.
Perhaps people want to be around people that they identify with...but we used to identify ourselves together, so what happened? Ehh I've given this a lot of thought and it has bothered me for sometime, but I don't think I'm saying this right.

I was surprised too. Even being in one of the most diverse schools, I'm still surprised how segregated they are. But again, it's their choice to choose who they would like to affiliate to. It took me a while to embrace my own culture. Now I have friends from different parts of the world and I'm glad that I do. Some people choose to be this way and I learned from my sociology class that it's some sort of "identity crisis", trying to find who you really are and what your root is and how your culture shapes who you are today.