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[ellebud]

Just because I'm curious question: How would a family, firmly entrenched in the NPHC react to little one pledging and NPC sorority or fraternity?

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by ellebud

Just because I'm curious question: How would a family, firmly entrenched in the NPHC react to little one pledging an NPC sorority or NIC fraternity?

That's a huge question with so many answers. Here's one aspect:

I think we've had a lot of threads about NPHC legacies and the differences between the history, traditions, and practices of NPHC, NPC, and NIC. Families that are deeply entrenched in NPHC membership can be perplexed if the offspring doesn't want to pursue the legacy org or any of the other NPHC orgs. They may want to understand the offspring's choice and make sure that he/she understands the choice. (Some people have dumb reasons for joining every org, including NPHC, but families may feel a dumb reason for joining an NPHC org will be ironed out through the aspirant and membership process. However, families may not know whether NPC and NIC orgs have ways of weening out "the dumb").

After the families get over that (smart families will), things tend to be cool unless people try to transform the NPC and NIC chapters into NPHC replicas in hopes of experiencing NPHC traditions. Then it becomes laughable. It can also become laughable if the person wishes to highlight things that aren't emphasized in the NPC and NIC orgs. If you wanted a particular history, emphasis, and traditions, you should've done your research and figured out which direction you wanted to go.

If the person's experience in the NPC or NIC is positive (and the person doesn't mind being the GLO minority in the family) then the family may still not recognize the org very well or understand the offspring's choice, but there isn't too much to fuss about at the end of the day.

[sigmadiva]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

That's a huge question with so many answers. Here's one aspect:

I think we've had a lot of threads about NPHC legacies and the differences between the history, traditions, and practices of NPHC, NPC, and NIC. Families that are deeply entrenched in NPHC membership can be perplexed if the offspring doesn't want to pursue the legacy org or any of the other NPHC orgs. They may want to understand the offspring's choice and make sure that he/she understands the choice. (Some people have dumb reasons for joining every org, including NPHC, but families may feel a dumb reason for joining an NPHC org will be ironed out through the aspirant and membership process. However, families may not know whether NPC and NIC orgs have ways of weening out "the dumb").

After the families get over that (smart families will), things tend to be cool unless people try to transform the NPC and NIC chapters into NPHC replicas in hopes of experiencing NPHC traditions. Then it becomes laughable. It can also become laughable if the person wishes to highlight things that aren't emphasized in the NPC and NIC orgs. If you wanted a particular history, emphasis, and traditions, you should've done your research and figured out which direction you wanted to go.

If the person's experience in the NPC or NIC is positive (and the person doesn't mind being the GLO minority in the family) then the family may still not recognize the org very well or understand the offspring's choice, but there isn't too much to fuss about at the end of the day.

^^^^ There is an article in the latest Essence about this. The daughter joined a NPC (AST, *I, think*), and the mom questioned why her daughter wanted to join a NPC, when NPHC orgs, in the mom's opinion, has a richer history of traditions.