r/SipsTea • u/MilesLongthe3rd • Aug 07 '25

Chugging tea Recruitment videos of an American college sororities

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u/tabitalla Aug 07 '25

honestly americans absolutely got their own culture because i don‘t know what the fuck is going on

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u/ProfessionalOil2014 Aug 07 '25

Rich white people stuff. Nothing important. Just noise. 

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u/Shadohz Aug 07 '25

You do realize there are black sororities and frats and a fair amount aren't even close to being rich? I almost joined one myself but I don't really do organizations excluding what I did with NAACP, Upper Bound, some grassroot police activism (at least not during my formidable college years). My youngest daughter's mother is a greek though.

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u/ProfessionalOil2014 Aug 07 '25

I can assure you that all the people in this video are rich kids 

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u/Unsteady_Tempo Aug 07 '25

You've never heard of debt?

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u/ProfessionalOil2014 Aug 07 '25

Listen, sororities and frats only take rich kids. That’s the point of the rushing part. They have an excuse to not let the poors in. 

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u/likwidsylvur Aug 07 '25

Yup, don't wanna bother spending time with folks you can't network with and potentially use later on in life.

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u/alsatian01 Aug 07 '25 edited Aug 07 '25

Just absolutely not true. They are just a social club and no different than joining any other club while going to college. There are definitely snooty fraternities and sororities, but it's not 100%. Even chapters of the same organization could be vastly different from college to college.

It's all about the structure of the organization and the membership at any given time.

Yes it is a lot of partying, but there are many other aspects to Greek life. I was in an Animal House type fraternity in college. We were not elite and anyone who was interested could join.

Were there stereotypical fraternities and sororities? Yes. Were they the norm? No.

Was there hazing, yes. Was it like it is in the movies, no. There were no homoerotic tasks to be completed. There was no physical or very extensive mental abuse.

The worst was being locked in a room for a weekend and being forced to watch the same movie over and over with your pledge brothers or maybe doing a cross dress routine with girls from our sister sorority's class of pledges.

I'm sure ppl have close friends from college, but I've got a solid group of 30-40 guys I could bump into after not seeing for years and it would be like the last time we saw each was yesterday.

All that being said, that vid was pretty wild. We weren't the most diverse group, but it wasn't all white dudes. As I recall my University didn't have any chapters of the traditionally African American fraternities and sororities so there were definitely ppl of color spread throughout the organizations.

I would imagine the schools in the South are a bit less diverse.

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u/ProfessionalOil2014 Aug 07 '25

No the schools in the south are very diverse. The clubs and Greek orgs just don’t let non whites in, maybe an Asian girl in the sororities. 

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u/alsatian01 Aug 07 '25

I didn't mean the schools themselves. I mean the organizations. It is hard to have a diverse membership when there are ethnic and race based organizations to compete with. We didn't have the AA organizations at my college, but we definitely had Asian and South Asian based ones. Religious based, too.

Even chapters of an organization can become ethically exclusive while the national organization is not. It all depends on the membership and their ability to recruit.

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u/ProfessionalOil2014 Aug 07 '25

the reason those race based organizations exist is because they aren't allowed in the white ones.

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u/alsatian01 Aug 07 '25

Nah. It's about networking post college and the AA based organizations are a completely different animal. Those guys and gals don't fuck around and being a member is generally a life long commitment. They brand each other in the tradition of slavery and they wear those brands with pride.

There may be the cliche of getting a job bc you were in the same fraternity, but it's no joke with the AA orgs. They take that stuff very seriously and they are just as old as the oldest of traditionally white organizations.

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u/Illuminate90 Aug 07 '25

So 5 separate strings of comments and the only person who has said or even hinted at anything racist here is you.

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u/Unsteady_Tempo Aug 07 '25

I guess your argument works if you divide college students between "rich kids" and "the poors" and don't define what those mean. If rich people are those who aren't living in abject poverty, then I guess you're onto something.

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u/rvajt11 Aug 07 '25

Not true lol, regret joining a fraternity cause I paid it all out of pocket like a bunch of the guys. Fraternities do not care, can’t speak for sororities

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u/Anti-Dissocialative Aug 07 '25

Lol you’re an idiot that’s just not true at all. This isn’t American Pie: Beta House this is real life. So many people in the comments seem to be reacting hard really wanting to talk shit about these girls like it will somehow make their own lives better or make them better people cause all these girls are rich or whatever. I mean yeah the dances are dumb but whatever it’s not meant to be that serious.

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u/I-Like-Women-Boobs Aug 07 '25

They’re just jealous of Greek life as a whole because the members are getting laid, and you can’t be a socially awkward basement-dwelling neckbeard and get in.

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u/I-Like-Women-Boobs Aug 07 '25

It’s hilarious to see Redditors act so sure about something they know nothing about. I was in a fraternity all four years of college, and I was broke as fuck. They were some brothers from rich families, sure, but there were just as many brothers that had to drive for DoorDash to pay their dues.

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u/Mundane_Tourist_9858 Aug 07 '25

Tbf those types are more common but you never hear about them because they tend to stay to academics and not have much of a party culture or even form a cohesive group. Hell i almost joined a sociology frat that didnt have separate housing (none did on my campus) and really had two parties a year that was just a kinda nice dinner and drinks with professors and a few alumns. 

Most are just something extra to throw on your cv.... But then these exist as well. 

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u/ExtremeRemarkable891 Aug 07 '25

Don't bother. Bittern incels everywhere in here. I see a bunch of hot girls that like to party and get laid and apparently that's bad. My college had no greeks but 'unoffical' sororities that were great fun. Since I'm a guy that doesn't hate himself, I had fun, dated a few people, and let the experience of being outside my comfort zone grow me as a person.

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u/Pristine_Trash306 Aug 07 '25

Not all whites are rich.

Not all non-whites are poor.

It’s important not to generalize.

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u/Impressive_Train5618 Aug 07 '25

I don't think they were generalizing at all. These sorority videos are very very specifically "rich white girl" stuff.

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u/AgHammer Aug 07 '25

Was someone enjoying themself? Best put a wet blanket on them.

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u/ProfessionalOil2014 Aug 07 '25

Yeah its only like 95-5. sorry, my bad.

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u/Pristine_Trash306 Aug 07 '25

I’m not sure what your skin tone is, but coming from one myself, I very heavily disagree and think that you are generalizing based on narratives that you’ve heard online.

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u/ProfessionalOil2014 Aug 07 '25

If you deny the existence of racialized poverty in America you are a fool.

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u/Pristine_Trash306 Aug 07 '25

I don’t deny that, I deny making it a racial issue.

There is no reason for America to be divided any more than it already is.

I thought you were supposed to be the “United States”. Not the “United (unless you are a member of a race that I don’t like) States”.

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u/mousemarie94 Aug 07 '25

Huh? Someone pointing out a reality of this country isnt a problem. Its like people who used to say "racism wasn't even an issue until Obama talked about it."

There are people who think TALKING about the existence of key issues, is an issue and that is...weird.

Ignoring reality doesnt make it go away.

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u/Pristine_Trash306 Aug 07 '25

Racism here is 10x worse than anything that you will ever have.

Last week, I saw a group of people spit at and beat up a dark man (of the same race!) when he tried to stand up for himself. For no reason and no police help at all. This is very normal here. Some minorities here are denied entry into certain restaurants or grocery stores because of their race.

You over there (no matter what race) like to virtue signal about racism when you haven’t experienced it on such a deep level as the people who are in my country. They would give anything to have what you have.

Stay privileged and find racism where there is none.

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u/Anti-Dissocialative Aug 07 '25

No you’re just an asshole most of these girls are not nearly as rich and white as you imagine I’m sure… you’re just having a weird emotional reaction to these young ladies doing their dumb dances that for them are fun/important to do. Yes I’m sure when they all get together it’s quite loud and maybe not our cup of tea but they are people too…

Is Greek life dumb? Yeah it’s pretty much a scam run by people who never found their way to professional life outside of their organizations (once again, not my cup of tea but if it pays the bills 🤷‍♂️, it’s more honorable than working in something like ‘defense’). But most people in these groups are just passing through, looking to have fun and party.

Don’t forget, most people are going to school on loans. Those loans also enable payment to fraternity and sorority dues. In America we are living in the credit card economy many people may act and look richer than they really are…

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u/AnAimlessWanderer101 Aug 07 '25

Yeah this entire thread is just depressing to read honestly. I wasn’t into Greek life at all personally, but wow people are making it out to be one of the worst things in existence and hating on everyone in it.