At first, I have to admit, I was completely confused about this article and it took me a while to realize that it was actually talking about American fraternities. It was interesting to read about them from this point of view. Since we don’t really have frats in Austria I only know the movie-version of them and I started to compare them to each other. All in all I think that this article as well as the movies pick up on every cliché there is about them.
Reading between the lines it also talked about acceptance of homosexuals in the American and Western society. Men try as hard as they can to be accepted as men in their group of friends and in society itself and not be associated in any way with homosexuality. I actually think that Americans do a far better job than other nations in the western countries at accepting homosexuals. They seem to be more open minded and therefore more understanding. There even are things like “coming out weeks” at our university of which I have never heard in Austria. I still can’t see why people are prejudiced against them. A persons’ gender says nothing about their character or their values. I also think that it is important to acknowledge who you are, and that includes gender, in order to be able to be true to yourself.
Blog #9
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