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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The rest of the world sends their kids to university for an education. Here, it seems a certain class of parents pays a premium for what amounts to a four-year networking seminar with beer, with crimes committed here and there. This is the great aspiration of the parvenu, the social climber who believes access can be bought.

You are not just paying dues, you are investing in the hope that your children will acquire what Bourdieu called "habitus".

The whole idea of Greek for us non Americans it that it is simply an enterprise sold to middle income americans as a sort of middle-management incubator, a place for those who need a pre-built structure to succeed. Americans have bought into this dream…..

“Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive”[/quote]

44% or US presidents belonged to fraternities, and I’d guess a similar percentage of senators and  top executives of Fortune 500 companies — more if you include societies like skull and bones.

In many chapters (like the one I belonged to briefly), your pedigree is the only thing that matters.  Excluding the riff raff is the point.  There is zero effort to “sell” anything to middle income Americans, merely an effort to exclude them.

Your entire post was what Caray famously referred to as “a swing and a miss.”

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