<p>Currently, about 25% of our students are proud of their membership in a fraternity or sorority.</p>
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<li>2007 Undergradutate Viewbook, Washington U in St. Louis</li>
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<p>(I suppose the rest are ashamed…)</p>
<p>9% of the first-year class is multicultural.</p>
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<li>Miami University brochure</li>
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<p>(The rest are monocultural, i.e. 100% German, North African, etc.)</p>
<p>Post your own, replete with your comments! :)</p>
<p>what’s so funny about the multicultural?</p>
<p>They say “multicultural” when they mean “not white.”</p>
<p>Almost every American could be said to be multicultural in some way, shape, or form: they’ve been exposed to different cultures and backgrounds, even if they’re Caucasian.</p>
<p>Good start–I’d like more.</p>
<p>My favorite is on the Bowdoin website. They have profiles of students and ask “What is your best Bowdoin memory?” </p>
<p>This one kid responds — </p>
<p>“I’ve lived with the same three kids for three years, and there’s one kid in the group of the four of us that we always pull pranks on, so it’s been three years of pushing this kid’s buttons constantly. We’ll do things like go into his room and stuff newspaper into every nook and cranny. We bought these huge boxing gloves, and when he’d be working in the computer lab, we’d run in and [whack him] with the boxing gloves. Basically we’ve been pranking this one kid for four years. Those are definitely some of the funniest memories I’ve had at Bowdoin.”</p>
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<p><a href=“http://www.bowdoin.edu/profiles/archives/students/dan_hall_05.shtml[/url]”>http://www.bowdoin.edu/profiles/archives/students/dan_hall_05.shtml</a></p>
<p>college2332 - That’s really sad… :(</p>
<p>barrons - I’ll look for more, although I just threw out a bunch of brochures for colleges I’m not interested in.</p>
<p>“Almost every American could be said to be multicultural in some way, shape, or form: they’ve been exposed to different cultures and backgrounds, even if they’re Caucasian.”</p>
<p>Yeah, I don’t like it when people think that there is a “white” culture when in fact there are many different cultures among the different peoples in that category. Like you’ve got the Italian culture, the French culture, the Spanish culture, the Greek culture etc. In fact, you could say that in the past it has been these cultural differences that turned Europe into the historical battlefield that people know.</p>
<p>but i think people just use the term white because it’s easier to label people that way, do you call anyone who speaks spanish hispanic, because where in the world is there even a country named hispania, but people from central and south america, as well as actual Spaniards are coined as spanish, “white” people or “hispanics” do have common characteristics, which may be why they are given those particular labels</p>
<p>back on subject, i guess my above statement sorta demonstrates why i don’t find that “muticultural” thing funny, and wow, i would not want to go to Bowdoin</p>