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To: hunter112
I think she's trying to make a point about the separatist side of the exisiting groups.

If that's the reason, then her heart might be in the right place.

This "club" sounds more like making a point than a legitimate ethnic club, where people sit around to share their ancestral music, language quirks, unique cuisine, inside jokes, cultural dances, etc.

When I was in college learning French, I visited French-American clubs regularly to get a chance to learn French nasal vowels from natives.

I remember a lot of camaraderie and good will among people of difference races who were bonded by their common Gallic background. . . food, wine, religion, chansons, literature, unique humor. Those clubs are still around. The same can be said about the other ethnic clubs that I visited.

I’m just having a hard time visualizing a Caucasian club meeting without the adjective boring coming to mind, but I could be wrong.

90 posted on 09/17/2003 4:34:55 PM PDT by george wythe
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To: george wythe
What would be the point of a causian-american club? What IS a caucasian-american? I agree with you. It would be boring. The 'tit for tat' mentality is tired and boring. There are many ethnic college clubs, French, German, Italian... I met a man from South Africa who is white. He's Dutch. I'm Italian and West Indian. We have A LOT in common, just based on common cultural aspects. There are white people living in the South who have way more in common with black Southerners (even if they don't like that) than say a white person from Germany. This whole 'we're bros because we're white' that's as ridiculous as 'black brother-sister'.
92 posted on 09/17/2003 4:47:04 PM PDT by cyborg (kliek hier)
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To: george wythe
I’m just having a hard time visualizing a Caucasian club meeting without the adjective boring coming to mind, but I could be wrong.

I wouldn't go, except to hack off people who threatened my freedom of association. After the club is grudgingly granted the right to exist, the fun would all be gone. Hopefully, this young lady has come up with a way to show school adminstration officials just how far they've bent backwards to encourage racial separation, and maybe they can just get back to getting kids to join the Chess Club, whatever their heritage.

97 posted on 09/17/2003 7:53:49 PM PDT by hunter112
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