why join? (sure already asked)

[UGAalum94]

DGdramadawg,

I think some chapters are all white because very few people who are anything other than white come through formal rush; the chapters make quota, stay over total and never do COB or COR (which probably covers about ten or twelve of the 18 sororities at UGA which actually are fairly diverse in every other respect other than African-American members).

Other sororities might do COB or COR or if they're fraternities do informal rush but don't end up
with much diversity in the group of people who attend their events and want to join.

It's not that I think that having all-white membership necessarily means the group discriminated against again non-whites. Non-whites may never have been interested in joining and put themselves in the running to join.

(No one would fault a NPHC group for being all Black if no one who wasn't Black showed up at the interest meeting. You've got to put yourself in the running.)

However, if you're going to jump in a thread and say, yes it will matter at some chapters that you are Asian, but it's not that those chapters discriminate by race or ethnicity, I'm going to find a that little suspicious. And it seems to me that's what happened here.

And, honestly, I do think that, particularly with fraternities and I'm not sure why it seems that way, there are some chapters that are pretty much all white because they've got a critical mass of racist members who keep anyone who is non-white from every getting a bid.

Macallan25 and I have argued about this before, and I really don't want to get that cranked up again, which is why I was sort of surprised to see him post his comment.

By the way, I think his comment was correct; there are actually chapters that will regard the OP differently as an Asian than if he had all the same credentials but was White. But I'd actually call them on having prejudiced members, and Macallan will let them off the hook.