Rush Turn Out *blurb*
Rush recently just ended. We gave out 11 bids and 9 accepted. There hasn’t been a class size this big in a long time so hopefully something good happens. The first pledge event was tonight. Nothing really hard yet but it reminded me of the journey I went through just a year ago. The new pledges share the same fears, anxieties, and excitements that i had last year as well.
But now that i’m an active I have different concerns. I gotta start figuring out how to make the pledges stay and such. However another subject that I’ve been thinkin about lately is the greek system especially dealing with racial issues. At my school asians are the minority. In most cases asians are in asian frats and whites are in white frats. There are no “old white frats” dominated by asian members as you would see in universities populated majorly by asians. I find this issue really strange because a lot of my friends that go to “asian schools” are in supposed big white frats. The large white frats are my school are largely white only in members, and white only at parties (of course it’s not white ONLY).
As a child growing up I thought racism and it’s related issues were a thing of the distant past. However as a teenager growing up too fast I feel like racism is still something that is still an ongoing battle. I believe that America is still largely for white people. This sucks because in terms of birth, culture, and methodology i would say i am 100% american; unfortunately, i look like an asian.
When I initially joined an asian-interest fraternity i felt embarrassed to be surrounded by even more asians. However when i think about it now, sometimes i feel a sense of pride behind it. One of our fraternities goals are to fight against asian stereotypes. I believe that through the fraternity and standing together among other asians helps create a stronger sense of asian awareness esp at my university.
This is just my blurb i shouldn’t blog this late.
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