Why So Many Greek Letter Orgs?

[33girl]

Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS

I was just trying to place your hypothetical in a realistic context. When people say that "race will no longer be important"/"less of a need...." they are usually thinking of cultural absorption of some degree. If not for that, why would these organizations' niches substantially diminish?

I think he's thinking about things like many cities used to have what was basically an Irish ghetto, and they no longer do.

But the thing is, you can change your name from Colleen O'Toole to Candace Towers. You can't really change your race (unless you're Eddie Murphy in that old SNL skit ).

[DSTCHAOS]

Originally Posted by 33girl

I think he's thinking about things like many cities used to have what was basically an Irish ghetto, and they no longer do.

But the thing is, you can change your name from Colleen O'Toole to Candace Towers. You can't really change your race (unless you're Eddie Murphy in that old SNL skit ).

lol @ Eddie

The reason why Irish ghettos (and that ghettos took on a whole new meaning beyond being neighborhoods where the majority are of a particular race or ethnicity) decreased is not because of what Panther's talking about, though.