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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You Americans and your silly, juvenile customs that you get way too worked up about. Lol.[/quote]

Right. The Japanese drink themselves brain dead after getting into University and my Oxford kid (UVA) says the drinking at Oxford fatr exceeds anything he ever saw in the States.  But if course you know better.  …because, why?  Oh and let’s talk about the German students at Bier-gardens while we are at ot.[/quote]

It’s not the drinking that I find funny, it’s the weird cosplaying/juvenile social club thing that people apparently assign outsize important to that I find funny. Like you really have to pay for friends to be considered “cool” by other people who pay for their friends? The whole thing is bizarre and a little childish. So glad I attended university in London and not in some hickish American college where being “Greek” is supposed to be something aspirational. And I’m sure actual Greeks find the whole thing even funnier.[/quote]

yeah, because surely the [b]british upper crust never paid money to join gay, exclusive social clubs lmao[/quote][/b]

Are you referring to the Pall Mall clubs like Travelers or The Reform Club? Because there is nothing like the American Greek system at Oxbridge. And I’ve been yo Travelers snd the Reform Club and was also president of a US Soriority. They aren’t comparable on any level [/quote]

Oxford and Cambridge both have drinking societies / dining clubs where kids get together to get drunk and act like idiots with their friends (the same thing Greek kids do at American schools).[/quote]

Distinct difference between kids getting together to drink and the [b]weird cosplay/initiation/rushing/faux secret society thing [/b]that frats/srats partake in.[/quote]

It's fascinating to me that THE most "weird/weird cosplay/initiation/rushing/faux secret society thing" in the US is the clubs in the Ivy League (google "Skull & Bones" sometime). But it's the relatively banal southern sororities the set everyone off on a tangent. If it's Yale, it's got to be wonderful, right?  [/quote]

The persecution complex amongst you people who make it a whole point to persecute others based on your contrived social hierarchy is strange indeed![/quote]

So, now you've really given the game away.  When it's Yale, outsiders just have a "persecution complex," but when it's a state school in the South, the "whole point [is] to persecute others based on [a] *contrived* social hierarchy."  It's the same result -- the people on this board condemn the enforcement of a "social hierarchy" when it is in the South, but think it is justified, and, in fact, desirable, when it's the Ivy League. We see here the beautiful irony of the ultimate snobs condemning others that they think are beneath them for having the temerity to be snobs. [/quote]

Well said.  And that goes for the idiot snob who insists students in the UK at Oxford, etc. don't get blackout drunk.  What a joke to claim that they're so much more sophisticated.  A simple google search turns up hundreds of pictures of wasted UK university students.  Same with Ivy League schools.[/quote]

No one said anything about UK students not getting blackout drunk. That’s projection on your part. UK unis don’t have Greek life. That’s the point. Quite ironic and telling that you automatically equate Greek life with “getting blackout drunk”.[/quote]

My kid is rushing at an SEC school, and they said they [b]met several international students from the UK, Italy, and beyond.[/b] FWIW. [/quote]

who are students at the SEC school, right?  What are you missing here.  google it.  There are no sororities or frats in the UK.  A quick google search comes up with:

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Are there frats and sororities in the UK?
Sororities and fraternities, collectively referred to as Greek life, do not exist in the UK, but are a huge part of college culture in the US. For those who are unfamiliar with them, they are—put simply—gender-specific social organisations: fraternities are for men and sororities for women.Nov 24, 2016

The problem with fraternities and sororities - Prospect Magazinehttps://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk › society-and-culture
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