Latino Greek Letter Organizations

[L.O.C.K.]

Yea, the whole "Multicultural" but being like 90% of one race kind of defeats the purpose. I mean, if a D9 org began calling themselves "Multicultural" in terms of their membership, it'd be true to a point (as there are obviously non-Blacks in D9 orgs) but it wouldn't make much sense.

I think the reason why you're seeing it so much in LGLOs is b/c of the nature of what it is to be Latino/Latina. You have some Latino ethnicities that have much more influence from certain cultures than others. What does it "mean" to be Latino? Who is Latino? Is an Asian person who lives in a South/Latin American country and then comes to the US Latino? Is an African immigrant to Argentina who then comes to the US Latino as well?

There are a lot of great books on "being" Latino and the experience of Latino/a's which shed a lot of light for me on the issue. I highly recommend Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas (a member of La Unidad Latina/Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity, Inc. btw). Talks about his life as a Black Puerto Rican. VERY VERY VERY good book and enjoyable to read too.

And another thing...if you have members from two ethnicites/races (ie Black and Latino) as your primary membership, wouldn't that be Bi-Cultural as opposed to Multicultural? B/c as far as I know, the supposed "Multicultural" Latino/a organizations are mostly Latino/a and Black with very few Asians...not sure about whites or Native Americans but I assume these numbers are also small. Also, does Multicultural come from membership or who their programs are targeted towards?? Just food for thought.