How do you explain a sorority to someone from another country?

[exlurker]

How about reciting some version of the old reliable "From the outside you can never understand it. From the inside you can never explain it.'

Even if you speak that in -- or get it translated into -- the other person's first language, if necessary, it's not going to come across any better than it does in English. But whatever.

[thewasher418]

Originally Posted by exlurker

How about reciting some version of the old reliable "From the outside you can never understand it. From the inside you can never explain it.'

Even if you speak that in -- or get it translated into -- the other person's first language, if necessary, it's not going to come across any better than it does in English. But whatever.

That's probably a better response to questions like "What is the benefit of joining a sorority?" rather than what I believe the OP is referring to, which is "What is a sorority?" It's like someone not from my state asking me what gumbo is and me giving them some platitude, when they want a definition.