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Originally Posted by littleowl33
Makes sense.
Of course I do, and of course they weren't "crippled"! But I can tell you that in some very hoity toity circles (not mine, certainly), if your child went to state school, ANY state school, it would be looked at as an embarrassment and would not be mentioned. If it's not a big name, it's no good. I don't agree with that at all, but that's the way it is for some people. And if the GC stories are to be believed, there are Southern Greek parents who feel the same way about their children pledging certain "undesirable" chapters. I'm sure we can both agree that this kind of snobbery is certainly the minority for both demographics, and it's unfair to use it as a generalization.
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I wasn't picking on you with the "crippled" comment.
I think that the number of people who actually live their lives making any important judgments about people based on either kind of elitism are probably pretty small in number.
Weirdly, I'd put parents not wanting kids to join "undesirable" chapters in kind of a different category. It's the socially insecure, rather than the elite, who are going to worry about that, assuming that the kid really wants to join the chapter. Some normal parents might just be bummed because their kid is disappointed with her results. But someone who isn't interested in actively social climbing isn't going to care if her daughter wants to join the "fat chapter."
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